More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. The article AI systems are reaching…
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Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of “unsustainable silliness” in compute buildout
Sam Altman warns of “unsustainable silliness” in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without…
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure…
Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others
Anthropic is launching an API that lets regulators, media outlets, and researchers check whether text carries Claude’s digital watermark. The EU AI Act…
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 promises better coding and research at up to 45 percent less
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, its most capable AI models yet. Fable 5.1 doubles its predecessor’s score on Terminal-Bench-Science…
Google Deepmind’s new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google’s current models are “a little bit below the frontier” but says he’s “100% certain that we will be…
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as…
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its “working…
US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform GenAI.mil
The Pentagon is expanding its AI platform with two new models, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil and xAI’s Grok for Government. The article US military adds ChatGPT…