Gemini 3.5 Pro slips by months
Google is reportedly months behind on Gemini 3.5 Pro as coding performance becomes the main test of its flagship model.
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Kimi K3 arrives with 2.8T parameters
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters, a 1M-token context window and published API pricing, while the open-weight proof still depends on weights and model cards.
Agnes-2.5-Flash uses a free coding model to pressure agentic developer tools
Agnes-2.5-Flash uses a free coding model to pressure agentic developer tools. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
MiniMax raises another HK$16B
MiniMax raises another HK$16B. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
PrismML squeezes a 27B model onto an iPhone
PrismML squeezes a 27B model onto an iPhone. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Yuanli trains DM0.5 on 150,000 hours of robot data
Yuanli trains DM0.5 on 150,000 hours of robot data is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
01.AI launches three decision AI products
01.AI launches three decision AI products is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
Oxford study says AI rewriting can steer opinions
Oxford study says AI rewriting can steer opinions is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Meta says Watermelon is catching up with GPT-5.5
Internal AI benchmarks, compute scale and Meta’s model strategy shift.
DeepSeek Adds Peak-Hour Pricing for V4 API
DeepSeek plans a mid-July V4 release and will double API prices during two China workday peak windows to smooth demand.
Gemini 3.5 Pro Slips From June to July
Google moved Gemini 3.5 Pro from a June release into July, leaving the flagship model limited to a small Vertex AI preview.
GPT-5.6 Arrives Behind a Government Review Gate
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna with lower token prices, but access is initially limited to about 20 government-reviewed partners.
Meta Restricts Claude Code and Codex for AI Teams
Meta told some applied-AI engineers to seek approval before using Claude Code or Codex, citing model distillation and contract risks.
OpenAI Prices GPT-5.6 in Three Tiers
OpenAI split GPT-5.6 into Sol, Terra and Luna, using Sol for top performance, Terra for mainstream work and Luna for cheaper high-volume use.
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.
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.
Gemini 3.5 Pro slips past June as prediction markets price July
Gemini 3.5 Pro slips past June as prediction markets price July
Google forms a coding push as AI-written code stalls near half
Google forms a coding push as AI-written code stalls near half
Lindy swaps Claude for DeepSeek and says costs fell by 90%
Lindy swaps Claude for DeepSeek and says costs fell by 90%
South Korea puts $518B behind four AI chip clusters
South Korea puts $518B behind four AI chip clusters
Wix’s Base44 ships its own model as ARR reaches $150M
Wix’s Base44 ships its own model as ARR reaches $150M
DeepSeek brings peak-and-off-peak pricing to model APIs
DeepSeek brings peak-and-off-peak pricing to model APIs
GPT-5.4 lifts Chan-Lam yields in wet-lab tests
OpenAI and Molecule.one used GPT-5.4 to identify TEMPO as an additive, raising average Chan-Lam coupling yields from 16.6% to 25.2% across high-throughput experiments.
GPT-5.6 leaks point to a 1.5M-token window
Unconfirmed OpenAI signals suggest GPT-5.6 may focus on longer context, slower but stronger reasoning, and agentic coding.
Altman says AI skeptics underestimated scaling
Sam Altman frames the scaling debate around new reasoning results, while conceding that long-horizon work remains a hard gap.
OpenAI replays real chats to test new models
OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation uses 1.3 million consented historical conversations to predict how unreleased models will behave in production, including agentic tool-use failures.
Kimi sends 300 agents to forecast the 2026 World Cup
Moonshot AI used a cluster of Kimi agents to simulate all 104 matches and identify probability gaps, including a higher chance for Germany than betting markets imply.
Chinese models reset the floor for AI pricing
Enterprise workload estimates show Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM separated by nearly 9x in cost, forcing OpenAI and Anthropic toward price pressure.
Nadella says token use has to earn its cost
Microsoft's CEO called himself a token-maxer but warned that each extra token should be matched by real productivity gains, not just bigger AI bills.
AI memory can make models agree at the cost of accuracy
AI memory can make models agree at the cost of accuracy.
A Stroop-style test trips up leading language models
A new attention test pushed major models into sharp accuracy drops, reminding buyers that reasoning claims still need careful benchmarks.
Google opens DiffusionGemma for faster text generation
DiffusionGemma applies diffusion-style decoding to text, generating chunks in parallel and showing another path beyond autoregressive language models.
Cohere releases North Mini Code for local coding
Cohere’s 30B-parameter MoE model activates about 3B parameters, supports 256K context and is released under Apache 2.0.
Anthropic prices Fable 5 at twice Opus
Anthropic opened Claude Fable 5 broadly at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, double Opus 4.8.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 with safety fallbacks
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s strongest public model, adapted from Mythos and designed to fall back to Opus 4.8 for cyber, bio, chemical and distillation risks.
Anthropic opens Claude Fable 5 to the public
Anthropic has made Claude Fable 5 broadly available, using classifiers to route sensitive cyber, bio, chemical and distillation requests away from the strongest model while keeping most conversations on Fable.
Xiaomi MiMo claims 1,000 tokens per second on standard GPUs
Xiaomi MiMo claims 1,000 tokens per second on standard GPUs. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
Microsoft unveils seven in-house MAI models
At Build 2026, Microsoft showed a full in-house model stack from reasoning to image, voice, transcription and coding, signaling a cheaper fallback beside OpenAI.
Microsoft shows seven MAI models to reduce OpenAI reliance
At Build, Microsoft presented seven in-house models, including MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B active-parameter MoE reasoning model trained from scratch without distillation.
Trump Order Gives US Cyber Defenders a 30-Day Look at Frontier AI Models
The executive order keeps model review voluntary but asks companies to give government cyber teams early access before wider release.
Alibaba pitches Qwen3.7-Plus as a self-checking agent model
Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Plus on June 2, highlighting multimodal input, tool use, code generation and autonomous testing as its next agent bet.
Google quietly offers to buy private app code for AI training
A reported Google Play pilot asks developers to sell source code, including dormant projects, while the email itself avoids saying AI.
Microsoft unveils seven in-house MAI models, led by a coding flash model
At Build 2026, Microsoft presented seven self-trained models, with MAI-Code-1-Flash beating Claude Haiku 4.5 on its cited coding benchmarks.
Richard Sutton says generative AI cannot do real science alone
The reinforcement learning pioneer argues that next-token models lack causality, experimentation and self-generated experience.
Tencent plans to equip WeChat's 1.4 billion users with an AI agent
Tencent is reportedly preparing to launch an AI agent for WeChat that can automate tasks across millions of mini-programs, with a beta test targeted for mid-2026.
MiniMax M3 brings sparse attention, supports million-token context
MiniMax released the open-weight M3 model with 1M-token context, advanced coding ability, and native multimodality, claiming it is the first to combine all three.
Cisco multi-turn attacks push Gemini jailbreak rate to 73%
Cisco research shows multi-turn jailbreak rates far exceed single-turn rates across 15 frontier models, with Gemini 3 Pro reaching 73.35%.
Anthropic's Opus 4.8 cuts error oversight by 75%
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, focusing on honesty and self-correction, with a 4x reduction in undetected code flaws.
OpenRouter processes 100T tokens monthly, raises $113M led by Google
OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, has raised $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, valuing the company at $1.3 billion.
DeepSeek Makes V4-Pro Discount Permanent, Slashing Prices 75%
DeepSeek has permanently set V4-Pro API prices at 75% off, locking in $0.87 per million output tokens and challenging rivals.
AMD Packs 192GB Memory Into APU, Runs 300B LLMs Locally
AMD's Ryzen AI Max 400 'Gorgon Halo' APU supports up to 192GB unified memory, enabling local inference of 300B+ parameter models on a single chip.
Karpathy joins Anthropic for pre-training work
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and inventor of 'vibe coding,' has joined Anthropic's pre-training team to accelerate research using Claude.