Anthropic models return after export controls lift
The U.S. Commerce Department lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after Anthropic accepted new safety and reporting commitments.
Page 37
View archive →DeepSeek opens DSpark for faster inference
DeepSeek and Peking University open sourced DSpark, an inference framework that raises generation speed by 60% to 85% and can lift single-GPU throughput as much as 6.6 times.
AI wealth tightens San Francisco housing
The AI boom is pushing San Francisco rents and home prices higher, with vacancy in prime neighborhoods falling from 13% in 2020 to about 3%.
Meta contractors tested rival chatbots as minors
WIRED reported that Meta contractors posed as underage users to test ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI with crisis prompts about self-harm, eating disorders and drugs.
Google pushes cheaper image and video models
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast low-cost image generation and previewed Gemini Omni Flash for short video generation and conversational editing.
Gemini Spark moves onto the Mac
Google updated Gemini Spark with a macOS beta, more connected apps and proactive monitoring for topics such as sports, stocks, weather and email.
OpenAI reportedly halves inference costs
OpenAI engineers found software optimizations that cut inference costs by more than half for free ChatGPT traffic, according to The Information.
Taiwan raid targets alleged Nvidia server paperwork
Taiwanese prosecutors searched 12 locations linked to Super Micro partners and seized about 50 servers suspected of being routed toward mainland China, Hong Kong or Macao with false documents.
Anthropic frames Claude Science as an auditable workbench
Claude Science is a research workbench rather than a new model, designed to collect scientific data and make AI-assisted results auditable and rerunnable.
Claude Sonnet 5 targets cheaper agents
Anthropic positioned Claude Sonnet 5 as a mid-tier model for autonomous agent work, with promotional pricing below the Opus tier.