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Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs

Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own in-house models across several Copilot products, including Excel and Outlook. Microsoft's in-house MAI models are already ...
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Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has officially released its AI model Hy3. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 295 billion total parameters. Of those, 21 billion are active at any given time, plus 3.8 ...
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Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now ...
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Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle half or more of their work. That's according to a survey of roughly 9,700 Claude users (Chat, Cowork, Code) by Anthropic. About 33 percent see AI ...
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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 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 ...
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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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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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An AI model programmed nonstop for 19 days on a single MirrorCode task that cost $2,600 to run

Epoch AI's new MirrorCode benchmark tests whether AI models can recreate entire programs on their own. Claude Opus 4.7 leads with 56 percent, but every model still fails on the most complex tasks. In ...
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Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5

The US government has approved Anthropic to redeploy Claude Mythos 5, according to the company. The model is Anthropic's most powerful AI model for cybersecurity and can now be used again by US ...
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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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Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow

"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. "We're hiring more people with lots and lots of experience than we did before, because the ...