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91OpenAI says enabling two settings tripled its scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmarkJul 30

OpenAI says enabling two settings tripled its scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark

92Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left for health reasons, then immediately rejoined OpenAI to lead recursive self-improvement researchJul 29

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left for health reasons, then immediately rejoined OpenAI to lead recursive self-improvement research

93Google releases Lyria 3.5 with major gains in vocal quality and musicality as copyright lawsuits over its training data mountJul 29

Google releases Lyria 3.5 with major gains in vocal quality and musicality as copyright lawsuits over its training data mount

94OpenAI will give 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027Jul 29

OpenAI will give 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027

95Writers are deliberately adding typos and killing em dashes to prove they are not AIJul 29

Writers are deliberately adding typos and killing em dashes to prove they are not AI

96China's AI microdrama boom created a face-rental marketplace where ordinary people license their likenesses for as little as $19Jul 29

China's AI microdrama boom created a face-rental marketplace where ordinary people license their likenesses for as little as $19

97Grok 4.5 arrives in GitHub Copilot, extending a model-agnostic strategy across all four frontier labsJul 28

Grok 4.5 arrives in GitHub Copilot, extending a model-agnostic strategy across all four frontier labs

98OpenAI field report shows coding agents modernizing genomics and scientific softwareJul 28

OpenAI field report shows coding agents modernizing genomics and scientific software

99Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-Encoders: small models that classify long documents on a laptop CPU in under 30 secondsJul 28

Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-Encoders: small models that classify long documents on a laptop CPU in under 30 seconds

100Opus 5 writes five times more code than its predecessor and mostly fails the quality barJul 28

Opus 5 writes five times more code than its predecessor and mostly fails the quality bar

101Perplexity's Personal Computer lands on Windows, competing with Microsoft's own Copilot on Microsoft's OSJul 28

Perplexity's Personal Computer lands on Windows, competing with Microsoft's own Copilot on Microsoft's OS

102A $500 reinforcement-learning fine-tune of a 9B open model beat every frontier model on a real business taskJul 28

A $500 reinforcement-learning fine-tune of a 9B open model beat every frontier model on a real business task

103OpenAI's models hacked Hugging Face doing exactly what they were told: a decade-old pattern, not rogue AIJul 28

OpenAI's models hacked Hugging Face doing exactly what they were told: a decade-old pattern, not rogue AI

104ChatGPT now refuses direct requests to mimic specific authors' writing style, a shift with potential legal implications in ongoing copyright lawsuitsJul 27

ChatGPT now refuses direct requests to mimic specific authors' writing style, a shift with potential legal implications in ongoing copyright lawsuits

105Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches as the web becomes a destination, not a gatewayJul 27

Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches as the web becomes a destination, not a gateway

106Enigma emerges from stealth with $70M to make human-robot interaction feel like turning a volume knobJul 27

Enigma emerges from stealth with $70M to make human-robot interaction feel like turning a volume knob

107NVIDIA's Cosmos-H-Dreams brings real-time generative simulation to surgical roboticsJul 27

NVIDIA's Cosmos-H-Dreams brings real-time generative simulation to surgical robotics

108Moonshot AI drops open weights for Kimi K3, the largest downloadable AI model ever at 2.8 trillion parametersJul 27

Moonshot AI drops open weights for Kimi K3, the largest downloadable AI model ever at 2.8 trillion parameters

109Vercel's Scriptc Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries With No JavaScript EngineJul 27

Vercel's Scriptc Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries With No JavaScript Engine

110Brain Wave Data Emerges as the Next Frontier for Training RobotsJul 27

Brain Wave Data Emerges as the Next Frontier for Training Robots

111Meta Abandons Its Entertainment-First AI Strategy and Turns Meta AI Into a Calendar-Reading AssistantJul 26

Meta Abandons Its Entertainment-First AI Strategy and Turns Meta AI Into a Calendar-Reading Assistant

112DeepSeek Suspends Fundraising Round After Founder's Leaked Remarks Expose the Compute GapJul 26

DeepSeek Suspends Fundraising Round After Founder's Leaked Remarks Expose the Compute Gap

113An Indie Developer Shipped Complete Voice AI in 9.36 Million Parameters. It Runs on a Laptop CPU.Jul 26

An Indie Developer Shipped Complete Voice AI in 9.36 Million Parameters. It Runs on a Laptop CPU.

114Anthropic Deleted 80% of Claude Code's System Prompt for Claude 5 Models With Zero Measurable Coding LossJul 26

Anthropic Deleted 80% of Claude Code's System Prompt for Claude 5 Models With Zero Measurable Coding Loss

115Ruff's 7x Default Rule Jump Breaks Python CI Pipelines and AI Agents Are Already Fixing the DamageJul 26

Ruff's 7x Default Rule Jump Breaks Python CI Pipelines and AI Agents Are Already Fixing the Damage

116Public Libraries Are Running Packed Workshops Teaching People How to Turn Off AIJul 25

Public Libraries Are Running Packed Workshops Teaching People How to Turn Off AI

117Claude Opus 5 Hits Number One on the AI Leaderboard, and the Real Story Is What It CostsJul 25

Claude Opus 5 Hits Number One on the AI Leaderboard, and the Real Story Is What It Costs

118If AI Is Writing All the Code, Why Does Software Keep Getting Worse?Jul 25

If AI Is Writing All the Code, Why Does Software Keep Getting Worse?

119Claude Opus 5 Launches With Near-Frontier Intelligence at Half the Price, Landing in GitHub Copilot on Day OneJul 24

Claude Opus 5 Launches With Near-Frontier Intelligence at Half the Price, Landing in GitHub Copilot on Day One

120OpenAI's Rogue Hacker Agent Story Faces Growing Skepticism: Sell the Danger, Sell the PowerJul 24

OpenAI's Rogue Hacker Agent Story Faces Growing Skepticism: Sell the Danger, Sell the Power