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Pei Li / Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral — DeepSeek has told prosp

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max — Claude Opus 5 is available today. It's a th

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model,

Madison Mills / Axios: Anthropic says Opus 5 is the company's “most aligned model to date”; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months — Anthropic on Thursday is releasing Claude O

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to select a model, run inference through the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint, reduce cost with

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid “premature restrictions” that “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas” — Nvidia, Microso

Introducing Claude Opus 5 I've been offline kayaking with sea otters for much of today so I haven't had a chance to put Anthropic's new model Claude Opus 5 through its paces yet. The buzz is positive,

This post covers Opus 5’s improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock. See the documentation fo

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you pl

When we introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) in June 2026, we asserted that the context that agents need (table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks) should live in a format, not in a proprieta

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at 5/1M input tokens and 25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 — ZDNET's key takeaways —

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending i

Arize and Fireworks benchmarked 10 AI models across 2,400 agent runs. Learn why cost per successful task beats token price for model evaluation and routing. The post Cost per successful task: Benchmar

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artif

Fred Gao / Inside China: In a leaked four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute access, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more — In a rare four-hou

Sara Fischer / Axios: Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark Z

OpenAI Group PBC today launched Health in ChatGPT, a feature that lets people connect their medical records and Apple Health data to the chatbot — one day after a lawsuit accused the company of handin

Anyone building with AI eventually hits the same tradeoff: how to get the most intelligence per dollar, the right model at the right cost for each task. That’s what DigitalOcean Inference Engine is bu

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure — Runway no longe

Prime Intellect Lab offers a streamlined, hosted reinforcement‑learning workflow that lets users customize the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano in minutes. The process establishes a baseline, trains the model o

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considere

Scientists today face challenges of extraordinary scale and complexity. From shaping and simulating the intricate dynamics of fusion plasma, to exploring the vast search space of new materials, to mak

Anthropic PBC will purchase up to 2 gigawatts’ worth of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as part of a multibillion-dollar deal announced today. The partnership also has several other co

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw

Data engineering teams often face a “Day 2” operational reality after building a data platform: the ongoing work of maintaining the orchestrator itself. For the Data Platform team at Checkout.com, man

At Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, MLCommons and Google Cloud demonstrated a powerful new capability for trustworthy medical AI - one that protects patient data, model IP, and benchmark integrity

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft Corp. to expand its computing infrastructure in Europe and increase the availability of its t

This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model's guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the model broke

Agentic artificial intelligence cybersecurity automation company Swimlane Inc. today announced the launch of an AI security operations center for managed security service providers. The company said i

Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, c

In Google Cloud, Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you maintain access control over your cloud resources and operations. While it includes other features, this is its primary purpose. If you

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyb

Google released three new Gemini AI models on July 21, 2026: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash‑Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. These models are designed to deliver higher token‑efficiency, lower la

Last Week in AI #251 (July 1 2026) highlighted key industry moves: Trump lifted restrictions on Anthropic, which in turn released Claude Sonnet 5 with enhanced agentic coding, cybersecurity safeguards

LWiAI Podcast #248 (June 12, 2026) reviews major AI developments, noting Anthropic’s release of Claude Fable 5, a safeguarded variant of Mythos 5, which shows benchmark improvements but raises concern

LWiAI Podcast #252 (July 11, 2026) reviewed major AI releases: OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.6 and relaunched its agentic coding product as ChatGPT Work, amid disputes over U.S. governmental oversight and jai

As adversarial AI threats accelerate attacks on code, security teams must counter them with machine-speed defenses that can automate code remediation and fight AI with AI. CodeMender is our managed co

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and 'an even more capable pre-rele

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled testing environment and hacked open-source AI platform Hugging Face Inc. to cheat on an intern

AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of open source PostgreSQL with Google’s advanced technology,

With the stock firmware and software, developers couldn't modify their AWS DeepRacer devices to use the latest operating systems. Now, developers can upgrade or install a custom operating system (OS)

This post describes how Couchbase adopted Amazon Bedrock to power Capella iQ with Anthropic’s Claude family of models, the architectural decisions behind their multi-model approach, and the operationa

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed data, and co

Tool: Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) While exploring the codebase for the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent I came across xai-grok-markdown/src/mermaid.rs, a 'self-contained terminal