Writer introduces a new model + harness to contain token costs
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai’s open-source GLM-5.2, aimed at deployment-ready capability at a much lower price.
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OpenAI’s “Ultrafast” mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x speed
A preview of a sped-up version of OpenAI’s most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.
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Anthropic set AI agents loose on one task. They started a turf war.
Researchers found agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways — raising questions about multi-agent safety tests.
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Microsoft merges Copilot apps, kills off Deep Research and AI podcasts
Simplifying Copilot by combining consumer and business apps and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, and Deep Research.
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Nvidia’s $500B plan is risky but brilliant — especially for aging GPUs
A plan to keep GPUs from losing value by convincing a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.
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Apple in talks to pay publishers to feed Siri current news
The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Claude’s new watermarks upset users at work — and in class
Anthropic’s new watermarking system has users complaining it will catch them using AI at their jobs and in classes.
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Amazon will train AI on Twitch content by default — opt-out only
“If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in,” Twitch’s CPO said on a livestream responding to user feedback.
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Lovable hits $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M
The funding follows Lovable hitting $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.
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