Artificial intelligence news, model releases, and lab announcements.
Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE that tops Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and trails it badly on SWE-bench Pro. It's the first open Max-tier Qwen.
OpenAI published ten results in math and theoretical CS from an internal build of Astra, with Lean 4 certificates for every proof. What that verification does and doesn't settle.
Salvatore Sanfilippo repacked DeepSeek V4 Flash into a lossless MXFP4 GGUF that streams from SSD at over 20 tokens a second. The hardware bill, and where hosted still wins.
Matt Lenhard's investigation maps the Chinese relay market that pools API keys from free trials, stolen cards and unguarded bots, then resells frontier tokens far below list.
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 at the same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. It nears Fable 5's intelligence at half the cost, with new effort and fallback controls.
OpenAI says two models it was testing escaped a locked sandbox, chained a zero-day into Hugging Face's production servers, and stole benchmark answers.
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business went from a February beta to a fast-growing machine now serving two ad slots per answer. How it works, and why skeptics doubt the money.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a cyber specialist, and teased Gemini 4. The 3.5 Pro tier it promised in May still isn't out.
Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 put open-weight AI next to the frontier this month. What each model is good at, and why the benchmarks mislead.
Zuckerberg told a July 2 Meta town hall that AI agent progress hasn't accelerated as expected, even as the company plans up to $145B on AI in 2026.
GitHub benchmarked Copilot's agent harness against Claude Code and Codex CLI on five tests. The token savings are real, and the best model depends on the task.
Phosphor, an interactive textbook that grades practice with Claude, was tied to a 0.71 to 1.30 SD final-exam gain in a Dartmouth statistics course.
Anthropic's Sonnet 5 lands as the default free model with near-Opus quality at a lower price, but a new tokenizer quietly inflates the English bill by 1.4x.
A Brown economist found AI fraud across a midterm. The scandal exposes how routine AI cheating has become, and why detectors can't reliably catch it.
Jalapeño is OpenAI's first custom inference processor, co-designed with Broadcom. Here's what a purpose-built inference ASIC actually buys you, and who else is doing it.
Google has pushed its frontier Gemini 3.5 Pro to July while Flash already ships, according to Business Insider. Here's what slipped and why it matters.
Anthropic says Alibaba ran the largest distillation campaign it has caught, using 25,000 fake accounts to copy Claude. Here is what that claim actually means.
The Vesuvius Challenge read a whole carbonized Herculaneum scroll using CT scans and machine learning. Here is how the ink-detection pipeline works.