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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Sakana claims its AI model router Fugu Ultra v1.1 now beats Fable 5 without even including it in the pool Sakana AI has released Fugu Ultra v1.1, an update to the AI router ...
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AI in practice

Alphabet has raised its 2026 investment forecast to as much as $205 billion, saying demand continues to outpace spending. Google Cloud grew 82 percent in the second quarter. CEO Sundar Pichai says ...
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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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OpenAI admits it "didn't get everything quite right" with ChatGPT Work launch and scrambles to fix UX and costs

OpenAI is facing backlash over the launch of ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Sol, with users reporting quickly exhausted usage limits, a confusing desktop app overhaul, and degraded multi-agent workflows.
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Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less

Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1 model edges ahead of GLM 5.2 in coding while coming in at a lower price point. According to Artificial Analysis, it scores 51 on the Intelligence Index, tying with GLM 5.2, ...
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GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost

OpenAI's new flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, performs almost as well as Fable 5 in benchmarks but costs only one-third as much. According to the independent AI evaluation platform Artificial Analysis, ...
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OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows

OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT Work," a new product built on GPT-5.6 and Codex technology that can work autonomously on complex projects for hours at a time. The app appears to be OpenAI's move toward ...
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Terrorist groups are using every major AI chatbot for attack planning and weapons development

ISIS has reportedly been offering prompt engineering and jailbreak training since 2023 and has trained Boko Haram commanders in Nigeria on how to bypass AI safety filters. Boko Haram now uses popular ...
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OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest

At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Division. Two of those problems were rated ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion-euro stake in Europe's hottest AI startup Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch said in a February interview that he expects annual ...
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AI and society

Read full article about: China's new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization is President Xi's clearest play yet for a parallel AI order Xi Jinping used the World AI Conference in ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and ...