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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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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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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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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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ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5

Researchers from Renmin University and Bytedance have released iLLaDA, an 8B language model that works differently from ChatGPT. It matches Qwen2.5 at the base level but falls behind after fine-tuning ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems Cohere has released Cohere Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model built ...
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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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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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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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Dario Amodei's new essay reads like a Cold War playbook for the AI age

Anthropic publishes a sweeping essay and two policy frameworks. The company calls for binding audits of frontier models and paints a picture of AI as a strategic weapon wielded by nation-states.
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Agent skills look great in benchmarks but fall apart under realistic conditions, researchers find

AI agents are supposed to tap into specialized knowledge through so-called skills. A study testing 34,000 real-world skills now shows these enhancements barely help under realistic conditions, and ...
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An OpenClaw AI agent asked to delete a confidential email nuked its own mail client and called it fixed

What happens when AI agents with email access, shell privileges, and their own memory get targeted by twenty researchers for two weeks? An international study catalogs the results. In an exploratory ...