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Google Drops Three New Gemini Models, But the One Everybody Wanted Is Still Missing

Google DeepMind released cheaper, faster AI models on Tuesday, including one built just for cybersecurity. Its flagship 'Pro' model, however, is still delayed.

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Google Quietly Upgrades to Gemini 3.6 Flash After 3.5 Fell Short on Coding

Google has released three new AI models, including a surprise version bump from 3.5 to 3.6 Flash. The promised Gemini 3.5 Pro is still not here.

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Google's new Gemini Flash models are built for AI that runs itself

Google DeepMind's 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite promise cheaper, faster AI agents. Here is what that means for the apps and games you actually use.

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Claude Code's Secret Weapon Is the Software Around the AI, Not Just the AI Itself

Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code explains why the smartest move in AI coding tools right now is building smarter wrappers, not just smarter models.

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China's Moonshot and Alibaba unveil giant AI models they say rival GPT-5 and Claude

Two of China's biggest AI players released models this weekend that they claim match the best American systems, and plan to make them free to download. The gap between US and Chinese AI may be shrinking fast.

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China's Kimi K3 Is the Biggest AI Model to Come Out of China Yet, and It's Rattling the Market

Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters, beats several top US models on key tests, and sent rival Chinese AI stocks tumbling on the same day it launched.

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NVIDIA and Hugging Face team up to make training giant image and video AI models far easier

A new open-source tool lets developers fine-tune some of the largest image and video generators available, on hardware ranging from a single machine to hundreds of chips, with no complicated file conversions.

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An AI Taught Itself to Write Better Code, No Teacher Required

A surprisingly simple trick let a leading AI model lift its coding score by nearly 13 points, just by studying its own answers.

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NVIDIA's New AI Search Models Top Global Rankings and Cut Agent Costs

NVIDIA released three new embedding models that set a new accuracy record for AI information retrieval. The best one also helps AI agents finish tasks faster and cheaper.

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The ex-DeepMind researcher who raised $300 million before his startup had a product

Andrew Dai spent over a decade helping build some of the most influential AI systems in the world. Now he thinks visual AI is where the next big leap happens, and investors are betting heavily that he is right.

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China's Kimi K3 could match Anthropic's best model and it will be free to use

Moonshot AI's next release is set to be the largest open-weight model from China, and early reports suggest it can go toe-to-toe with Anthropic's most capable closed system.

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Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Inkling: A New AI Model

Ex-OpenAI team launches a large open-weight AI model, aiming for more accessible and flexible AI development.

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OpenAI's First Hardware Device Is a Smart Speaker That Sees the Room

No screen, a roving camera, moving parts, and ChatGPT's voice built in. OpenAI's debut gadget is expected to land in 2027.

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Anthropic's dark new ad is making people uncomfortable, and even rivals are piling on

The AI safety company tried to own the scary side of its own industry. Viewers say it mostly just looks scary.

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Google's TabFM learns to predict from data it has never trained on

A new AI model from Google Research can analyse a spreadsheet it has never seen before and return a prediction in a single step, no custom training required.

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