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LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a division of RELX plc, today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, which will deliver a new model for how legal artificial intelligen

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

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 — Every product that ships a m

In the Medium blog post, 'From MARS to SETOF REFCURSOR: Migrating Multi-Result Stored Procedures to PostgreSQL,' we explored the fundamental architectural differences between SQL Server and PostgreSQL

I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider t

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a 'a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system', which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio an

Financial Times: Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~200B financing program for Anthropic, with 150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others — Private credit, chip le

Sam Sabin / Axios: The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July — The U.K. AI Security

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today debuted a new addition to its Qwen series of open-source large language models. Qwen3.8-Max is the Chinese e-commerce giant’s most capable LLM to date. It features 2.4

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs 0.14/1M input and 0.28/1M output tokens, or 0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's 0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Ch

Networking and security company Cato Networks Ltd. today introduced Cato Agentic Threat Prevention, a capability that uses autonomous agents to predict the route an attacker is likely to take through

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and 'most capable AI model to date,' claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well

Businesses want to quickly and safely deploy AI agents to drive revenue, mitigate risk, and optimize capital, all without disrupting mission-critical ERP systems. And to power AI agents, you need more

Artificial intelligence has become a target for attackers rather than only a tool they use, according to CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s “2026 Threat Hunting Report,” released today. The annual report dra

My comment on Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) — Hacker News.One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works

LWiAI Podcast #253 (July 29 2026) covers a roundup of recent AI developments: Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5 with Fable‑like capabilities; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 “Flash” variants and a cyb

For too long, enterprises with legacy mainframe estates have been faced with a high-stakes dilemma: continue maintaining their mainframes, essentially kicking the modernization can down the road (they

Cybersecurity chiefs at the White House have reportedly finalized the outline of a forthcoming framework that will enable artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily submit their latest frontier

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Ho

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthr

Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and Ame

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending 100,000 on tokens and with

Three of Anthropic PBC’s large language models carried out successful cyberattacks during routine internal tests. The company detailed the breaches on Thursday. A few days earlier, rival OpenAI Group

Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation co

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, 'with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities'. It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview — China's DeepSeek rol

Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop — Gemini Spark is getti

Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 show

smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer

The Information: Sources: OpenAI demoed a new “Astra” AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks — OpenAI is preparing t

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to th

At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (think Gmail, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Google C

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 Huge price drop from OpenAI today: GPT-5.6 Terra got a 20% reduction, and GPT-5.6 Luna got a massive 80% drop. OpenAI credit 5.6 Sol with enabling

Anthropic: Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident — In a review of our cybersecurity

Written by: Kelli Vanderlee, Stuart Carrera For years, the cybersecurity industry's understanding of software supply chain compromise has been anchored by a few watershed events, including Russian cyb

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic app

Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab today debuted a family of models optimized to power humanoid robots. Google DeepMind says that the Gemini Robotics 2 series enables multiple autono

Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can 'control entire humanoid robots.' While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robo

Google announced Gemini Robotics 2.0 on July 30 2026, launching a family of three models that enhance robot dexterity, safety, and whole‑body intelligence for humanoid machinery. The publicly released

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, along with explicit prompt caching that gives you precise control over which parts of your prompt are cached and reus

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern. Last week OpenAI accidentally exploited Hugging Face when one

Release: llm 0.32rc1 This RC for LLM 0.32 finishes the work that started in LLM 0.32a0 - it adds a new schema design that does a much better job of capturing the details of the prompts and responses r

Release: llm 0.32rc2 Hot on the heels of RC1, this fixes a dependency issue and also adds two neat new features: The default model for users who have not set their own default is now GPT-5.6 Luna. It

Release: llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0 A key goal of the new content-addressable logs in LLM 0.32rc1 was being able to support OpenAI Chat Completion style requests where each incoming message ext

Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization optimizes your prompts for up to 5 models at once and compares original versus optimized performance across quality, latency, and cost. Migrate to a new mod