The US Department of Homeland Security has banned federal civilian agencies from using AI technology from Chinese lab Deepseek. The article US bans…
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Cloudflare’s Clairic pulls data from documents faster and cheaper than LLMs
Cloudflare has released an AI model it says pulls data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models. The article Cloudflare’s Clairic…
MiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China’s AI price race has no floor in sight
MiniMax’s M3.1 Flash jumps 13 points over its predecessor to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at half the cost. It also hits 73.7 percent…
Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant
Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension…
Stripe says AI agent purchases are adding up, but it won’t share the numbers
AI agents are increasingly using Stripe’s payment service Link to shop for their users, Upstarts Media reports. The article Stripe says AI agent purchases…
Anthropic plans fund for workers threatened by AI, Musk counters with SpaceX shares for children
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing…
The neocloud shakeout is coming, and Nvidia has the most to lose
After stock crashes and Firmus’s scrapped IPO, industry executives expect only seven to ten of the hundreds of AI cloud providers to survive. CoreWeave…
Anthropic cushions its upcoming IPO with a discretionary fund for workers its models might replace
Anthropic wants to put five percent of its shares into a new public benefit fund that will also look into direct payments to workers at risk of losing…
Anthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hours
Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles. The share of junior positions among new hires dropped from 27 to 9 percent since…
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help
Four AI agents running on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully…