Claude Sonnet 5.5 Launches: 30% Faster at No Extra Cost
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 claims 30% speed gains and lower costs, but third-party testing shows a different picture at the highest reasoning tier.
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MIT researchers used a small-data AI algorithm to find a lipid nanoparticle formula that keeps an RNA vaccine stable for a year without refrigeration.
Fireworks Turns Kimi K3 Into Ember-1, Cuts Tokens 40%
Fireworks AI post-trains Moonshot's open Kimi K3 into Ember-1, cutting output tokens by about 40% while matching coding scores, at the same per-token price.
Nvidia Unveils Agent Safety Platform, Backed by 100+ Firms
Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform pairs an open-source sandbox runtime with a BlueField-4-based monitor that can halt rogue AI agents in milliseconds.
Meta's Hologram Avatar Comes to Ray-Ban Display This Fall
Meta's Hologram avatar reaches Ray-Ban Display smart glasses this fall for voice-driven WhatsApp video calls, with a full-body VR version arriving in 2027.
Anonymous Model Space Bunny Tops OpenRouter Usage Charts
A free, anonymous model called Space Bunny Alpha has topped both OpenRouter and OpenCode usage charts, with mounting clues pointing to MiniMax.
Zhipu Wipes ZCode Cloud Snapshots, Adds Reset Cards and Tokens
Zhipu says it has torn out ZCode's cloud snapshot pipeline, deleted the data, and is compensating users with reset cards and token credits after a ten-day audit.
MiniMax launches M3.1-Flash-Preview
MiniMax quietly rolled out M3.1-Flash-Preview inside MiniMax Code, with a 1M-token context and reasoning that can't be turned off, but still no benchmarks or pricing.
Xiaomi fixes MiMo's repeated tool calls for $90,000
Xiaomi's MiMo team traced a coding-agent bug where models looped on identical tool calls back to a reinforcement-learning blind spot, and fixed it for about $90,000 instead of a $2.31 million retrain.
Unsealed filings tie OpenAI, Microsoft to LibGen piracy
Unsealed Authors Guild court filings claim OpenAI and Microsoft knew LibGen training data was pirated, and detail an internal deletion effort called Project Clear.