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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 and society

Wealthy US families are increasingly sending their kids to AI schools like Alpha School, which combines two hours of AI tutoring with project-based workshops for up to $75,000 a year in tuition. The ...
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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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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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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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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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AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps

Amazon is launching two new AWS services: AWS Continuum, which automates the fixing of code vulnerabilities, and AWS Context, which feeds AI agents business knowledge through a knowledge graph to ...
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ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls

ChatGPT gets better at scheduled tasks. OpenAI added a new "Scheduled" page to the sidebar that puts all active tasks in one place. Users can view, pause, edit, or delete tasks from there. Research ...
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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...
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Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

The timing makes it worse. Shortly before, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI, one of the minds behind the reasoning approach powering Google's latest models. Within weeks, Anthropic and ...
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OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year

OpenAI spent $34 billion in the past year, far more than the year before. That's according to independent journalist Ed Zitron, whose figures were independently confirmed by the Financial Times. About ...