Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, its most powerful models to date, in two versions: one freely available and one reserved for…
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Meta launches Muse Ember, a small AI model built for the repetitive work agents actually do
Meta is introducing Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient AI model, optimized for repetitive agent tasks such as tool calls, routing, and data…
Bytedance’s Seedream 5.5 promises pixel-stable image editing across 100 rounds without color drift
Bytedance Seed has introduced Seedream 5.5, an image model built for professional production workflows. It supports stable multi-pass editing over up to…
Disney bets on Adobe’s Firefly to create brand-safe AI models for its entertainment empire
Disney and Adobe are building custom AI tools together for the entertainment giant’s productions. The article Disney bets on Adobe’s Firefly to create…
Tencent’s AI chief says AI bioweapons are coming, but closing off models isn’t the answer
Tencent chief AI scientist Vinces Yao Shunyu warns that AI will soon be able to develop bioweapons and argues for a middle ground between open and closed…
Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia
Google is expanding its TPU 8 family with two specialized variants: the TPU 8tx keeps sensitive data encrypted even during processing, while the TPU 8i…
Nvidia espionage scandal weakens Huang’s lobby against tighter AI chip export controls
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an extramarital affair with a woman US intelligence agencies classify as a suspected Chinese informant. The board…
Andrej Karpathy built a curated video platform in a weekend using Claude and 20 years of Hacker News
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy used Claude’s Opus 5.5 to filter 43 million Hacker News comments into 6,454 curated videos. The result beats YouTube’s…
The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate
Consciousness researchers Anil Seth, Ned Block, and Giulio Tononi argue in a Nature commentary that today’s AI systems aren’t conscious and won’t become…
The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton reaffirms that raw compute alone isn’t enough for intelligence and that fundamentally new learning methods are needed.…