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OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive

OpenAI is planning a portable, screenless smart speaker as an AI companion for the home. The device is meant to feel alive, but Apple's trade secrets lawsuit could delay its launch. OpenAI's ...
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Meta's AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned

Mark Zuckerberg admitted to weaknesses in the company's restructuring during an internal town hall. The AI agents Meta reorganized around are progressing slower than planned, Zuckerberg said. His AI ...
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Microsoft launches $2.5 billion "Frontier Company" to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside ...

Microsoft is putting 6,000 engineers and industry experts on the ground at enterprise customers through its new "Frontier Company" unit, aiming to weave AI into their core operations. Microsoft has ...
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OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"

OpenAI has to initially limit access to its latest AI model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners at the U.S. government's request. CEO Sam Altman announced this during an internal Q&A session on ...
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OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cheats a lot. That's the key finding from an independent evaluation by METR. During testing with software tasks, OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol showed the highest rate of ...
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models ...

Anthropic says it has cut 80 percent of the system prompt for Claude Code. Tariq Shihipar, a member of technical staff at Anthropic, describes a fundamental shift in how AI models are steered, tied to ...
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Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia ...

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip, according to The Information. The project is reportedly still in its early stages, with no detailed design yet.
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeño," a custom chip built for LLM inference

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled "Jalapeño," a custom chip built specifically for large language model inference. OpenAI says the architecture delivers better performance per watt. Development took ...
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AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure ...

Anthropic better get moving on its IPO. OpenAI apparently already missed its optimal window and postponed. Now even Anthropic's explosive growth could come under pressure as companies tighten AI ...
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Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual ...

Weibo's new VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches top models up to 333 times its size on math and coding benchmarks. The performance comes from multi-stage post-training applied ...
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OpenAI launches Claude Mythos rival GPT-5.6 Sol under government access it calls unsustainable

OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 generation includes the flagship Sol and two cheaper tiers, Terra and Luna. Sol matches or beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 across benchmarks, with a clear lead in agentic coding ...