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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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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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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. "LongCat-2.0 has demonstrated that we now have the capability to train large-scale models on domestic ...
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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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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost Z.ai is already competing with Western models on price with GLM-5.2, and now it's ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Claude Code and Fable 5 ported the 2003 PC game Command & Conquer to native iOS in "a few hours" A Google Deepmind developer ported "Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour" to ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The ...
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AI sycophancy makes people less likely to apologize and more likely to double down, study finds

A study published in Science is the first to systematically measure how much AI language models engage in social sycophancy and what it does to people. Across three experiments with 2,405 participants ...
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Ex-Anthropic researchers launch AI startup Mirendil to tackle scientific research

Another neo-lab enters the scene, this time from Anthropic's ranks: Mirendil wants to use AI to advance research in fields like biology and materials science. Founders Behnam Neyshabur (CEO) and Harsh ...
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The first AI proof worthy of math's top journal landed and it won't be the last

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...