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The 256th episode of the LWiAI Podcast (recorded 09/03/2026) discusses major AI developments from the prior week: Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, which feature lower pricing, stronger age

Google has begun allowing third‑party customers to acquire or rent its TPU chips—starting with the TPUv7 “Ironwood” generation. In comparative tests against NVIDIA Volta (B200/B300), Ironwood shows up

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest 250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of 500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics — Krafton, the

I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=

Google: Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks — Our newest Gemini models deli

Washington Post: Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S.

Visko Platform Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab focused on developing persistent world models, said today it has raised 10 million in a pre-seed funding round from Llama Ventures. It’s al

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey today warned that advanced artificial intelligence poses risks to financial infrastructure. Bailey outlined his concerns in a letter to G20 finance ministers and

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents — As the compan

Broadcom Inc. today introduced VMware Private AI Cloud, an integrated software stack designed to enable enterprises to build and run artificial intelligence applications alongside conventional workloa

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had 'achieved AGI,' one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing.

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale 45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips — Anthropic PBC has a

Grace Kay / The Information: At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more — Earlier this

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs — Chipmaker

Physical artificial intelligence is emerging as the next major phase of AI. These systems not only generate content or analyze data but also perceive, reason about and act in the physical world. The o

Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive A few interesting numbers in this FT story gathered from 'people with knowledge of the matter': Anthropic's 'annualized rev

An anonymous provider has been handing out free access to a frontier-class coding model on OpenRouter Inc. since Aug. 20, and no company has admitted to building it. The model is listed as “Ox Alpha”

Financial Times: Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers ha

Rashika Singh / Reuters: Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has made a m

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left h

Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for runni

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Bloomberg reports Stripe agreed to buy model router OpenRouter for over $7B; Stripe has not confirmed the deal.

Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washing

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent 'AI teammates' that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environm

Some of Wall Street’s biggest financial firms are partnering with Nvidia Corp. to pour a half-trillion dollars of funding into the artificial intelligence industry’s massive infrastructure buildout. N

Defensive cybersecurity startup Corma Labs Ltd. today announced it has raised 60 million in seed funding to build a foundation model purpose-built for security defense. Founded in 2025, Corma runs off

Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running

Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept 'art' created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5

Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5. #75, #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExe

**Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s 2.8‑trillion‑parameter open‑weight language model—the largest ever released—designed for frontier tasks such as long‑horizon coding and deep reasoning.** Its architecture us

Voice assistant and conversational AI agent developer PolyAI Ltd. today announced the release of Dialog-RSN-1, a voice dialog artificial intelligence model capable of directly perceiving and respondin

NVIDIA tutorial: StarCoder2-7B NIM behind NeMo Guardrails, plus CI checks and commit trailers so generated patches stay auditable.

Wall Street Journal: Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models — The AI pioneer f

A group of tech firms has released an open letter that calls on policymakers not to ban open-source artificial intelligence models. The development follows a report that some Trump administration offi

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity — Many of

I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on re

Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features w

simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a 'pet' in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Cl

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —Ja

Samsung's own announcement says its DX division selected ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude after a 2,500-person evaluation; no measured outcome is reported.

I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been lookin

We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I've been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent repre

Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key p

DigitalOcean announced a new AI-native cloud platform designed to support production artificial intelligence workloads with optimized infrastructure and services. The offering likely provides speciali