Robert Mahari is Anthropic’s first “Head of Claude for Legal,” responsible for deploying and expanding the Claude AI model across the legal industry. The…
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Nvidia’s Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed
Nvidia is working on Nemotron 4, a new open-weight model designed to rival the world’s best freely available models. The article Nvidia’s Nemotron 4 aims…
Microsoft’s new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance
Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that’s said to be 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of…
Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits
Mistral is giving customers the option to route AI requests through servers in either Europe or the US, and selling priority queue access during peak…
Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale
The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical book pages. The top model,…
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do
OpenAI aims to give cybersecurity defenders a head start: The new GPT-5.6-Cyber model answers up to 98.5 percent of security queries that would otherwise…
OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock
OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buyback, letting current and former employees sell shares at the company’s $852 billion valuation. The move is meant…
“But marinade” and leaked passwords are what researchers found in ChatGPT’s hidden reasoning
Security researchers found a vulnerability in the APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that lets them extract encrypted reasoning traces and move them…
Nvidia’s open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning prioritizes speed over maximum intelligence
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weights model with just 3.6 billion active parameters that matches OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence…
Anthropic’s planned mega-IPO faces investor skepticism over Chinese rivals and political headwinds
Anthropic is preparing an IPO for September or October, according to the Wall Street Journal, potentially the largest ever. During investor meetings, the…