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A compact 35B model learns to survive a changing agent harness, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / -1175 min ago

A compact 35B model learns to survive a changing agent harness

Meta AI's Mac App Adds Screen Sharing and Dictation, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / 4 hr ago

Meta AI's Mac App Adds Screen Sharing and Dictation

Anthropic's annualized revenue passes $65 billion, Bloomberg reports, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / 2 days ago

Anthropic's annualized revenue passes $65 billion, Bloomberg reports

OpenRouter Halves Price on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Through September 18, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / 2 days ago

OpenRouter Halves Price on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Through September 18

New coding agent turns word problems into checked math proofs, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / 3 days ago

New coding agent turns word problems into checked math proofs

Mistral Posts OCR 4.1 Spec Page With Per-Page Pricing, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / 6 days ago

Mistral Posts OCR 4.1 Spec Page With Per-Page Pricing

Google Quietly Builds an Agent Console Inside AI Studio, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 14

Google Quietly Builds an Agent Console Inside AI Studio

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 climbs to No. 2 on Arena leaderboard, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 14

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 climbs to No. 2 on Arena leaderboard

ChatGPT desktop and Codex CLI can now import rival agent setups, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 13

ChatGPT desktop and Codex CLI can now import rival agent setups

ChatGPT Desktop App Now Available on Linux, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 13

ChatGPT Desktop App Now Available on Linux

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B Open MoE Model, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 13

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B Open MoE Model

Skills.sh lets teams bundle agent skills into shareable packs, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 11

Skills.sh lets teams bundle agent skills into shareable packs

OpenAI's First Hardware Product: A Moving, Puck-Sized Speaker Due in 2027, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 8

OpenAI's First Hardware Product: A Moving, Puck-Sized Speaker Due in 2027

DeepSeek Warns of Coming API Price Hikes, No Numbers Yet, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 7

DeepSeek Warns of Coming API Price Hikes, No Numbers Yet

Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Claims Single-Pass Newspapers, Menus, Exam Sheets, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 7

Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Claims Single-Pass Newspapers, Menus, Exam Sheets

Cursor plugins let coding agents write to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 5

Cursor plugins let coding agents write to Gmail, Docs, Sheets

Google is quietly testing a Plugins tab for Gemini Enterprise, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 5

Google is quietly testing a Plugins tab for Gemini Enterprise

Google Tests Gemini Desktop Upgrades to Match the Web App, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 4

Google Tests Gemini Desktop Upgrades to Match the Web App

Ghostty creator's startup Superlogical previews a terminal multiplexer, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Aug 1

Ghostty creator's startup Superlogical previews a terminal multiplexer

Google rolls out Lyria 3.5 music model inside Flow Music, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 31

Google rolls out Lyria 3.5 music model inside Flow Music

OpenAI's Codex Security scans code and confirms bugs before flagging them, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 30

OpenAI's Codex Security scans code and confirms bugs before flagging them

Cognition buys Poke maker, its second deal in two days, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 25

Cognition buys Poke maker, its second deal in two days

Sakana AI Ships Fugu-Ultra v1.1, Still Betting on Orchestration, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 25

Sakana AI Ships Fugu-Ultra v1.1, Still Betting on Orchestration

Amazon Cuts Jobs Inside Its AGI Unit, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 24

Amazon Cuts Jobs Inside Its AGI Unit

Anthropic Tests Managed Projects That Act Without Prompting, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 24

Anthropic Tests Managed Projects That Act Without Prompting

Google says pretraining has begun for Gemini 4, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 23

Google says pretraining has begun for Gemini 4

Anthropic Shuts Down Conway Agent Test, Sets July 24 Data Deadline, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 22

Anthropic Shuts Down Conway Agent Test, Sets July 24 Data Deadline

Cognition Acquires TierZero to Bring Incident Automation to Devin, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 22

Cognition Acquires TierZero to Bring Incident Automation to Devin

Sushanth Raman debuts supply chain Custom Models on X, featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 22

Sushanth Raman debuts supply chain Custom Models on X

Moonshot AI Targets Hong Kong IPO at $30 Billion Valuation. Featured image for AI Insiders.
Wire / Jul 21

Moonshot AI Targets Hong Kong IPO at $30 Billion Valuation

Moonshot Pauses New Kimi K3 Signups as Demand Outstrips GPUs. Featured image for AI Insiders.
Wire / Jul 21

Moonshot Pauses New Kimi K3 Signups as Demand Outstrips GPUs

Vercel Opens Its AI Gateway Leaderboard Data to the Public — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 16

Vercel Opens Its AI Gateway Leaderboard Data to the Public

Open Interpreter's GitHub Repo Turns Coding Agents Into UI Testers — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 16

Open Interpreter's GitHub Repo Turns Coding Agents Into UI Testers

Anthropic's Bankers Start Booking Investor Meetings for IPO — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jul 16

Anthropic's Bankers Start Booking Investor Meetings for IPO

Apple's Vision Pro chief reportedly joins OpenAI's hardware team — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 30

Apple's Vision Pro chief reportedly joins OpenAI's hardware team

Midjourney Pivots to Medical Hardware With Full-Body Ultrasonic Scanner — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 20

Midjourney Pivots to Medical Hardware With Full-Body Ultrasonic Scanner

NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra handles 20x more agents per megawatt than Hopper — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 16

NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra handles 20x more agents per megawatt than Hopper

Ramp built a private SWE-Bench from its own production bugs — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 16

Ramp built a private SWE-Bench from its own production bugs

Kernel fusion is where PyTorch inference speed actually hides — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 13

Kernel fusion is where PyTorch inference speed actually hides

NVIDIA ships open-source scanner for agent skill supply-chain risk — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 13

NVIDIA ships open-source scanner for agent skill supply-chain risk

Cursor's Bugbot is 3x faster, 22% cheaper, and catches more bugs — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 12

Cursor's Bugbot is 3x faster, 22% cheaper, and catches more bugs

OpenAI's Codex helped an EHT scientist simulate black hole plasma — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 12

OpenAI's Codex helped an EHT scientist simulate black hole plasma

Ramp bets the moat is the integration layer, not the model — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 12

Ramp bets the moat is the integration layer, not the model

Cohere ships North Mini Code, an open-weight coder for sovereign deployments — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 11

Cohere ships North Mini Code, an open-weight coder for sovereign deployments

Enterprise AI buyers are routing around frontier models — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 11

Enterprise AI buyers are routing around frontier models

Evo ports autoresearch onto Claude Code dynamic workflows — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 11

Evo ports autoresearch onto Claude Code dynamic workflows

FlashMemory cuts DeepSeek-V4 KV-cache to 10-15% with no accuracy loss — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 11

FlashMemory cuts DeepSeek-V4 KV-cache to 10-15% with no accuracy loss

OpenAI opens research program on AI's economic effects — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 10

OpenAI opens research program on AI's economic effects

Perplexity locks in 2028 IPO, skipping the first AI listing wave — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 10

Perplexity locks in 2028 IPO, skipping the first AI listing wave

Starlink operators are taking over xAI's engineering leadership — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 10

Starlink operators are taking over xAI's engineering leadership

Cursor updates Design Mode to replace chat with point-and-edit — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 9

Cursor updates Design Mode to replace chat with point-and-edit

Four labs, one sim: small models behave differently in the wild — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 9

Four labs, one sim: small models behave differently in the wild

Kernel work is the fastest path into a frontier AI lab — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 9

Kernel work is the fastest path into a frontier AI lab

OpenAI plans ChatGPT overhaul to push task-first interface — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 9

OpenAI plans ChatGPT overhaul to push task-first interface

A zero-dependency CLI for picking the right local model — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 6

A zero-dependency CLI for picking the right local model

Alibaba publishes the distillation recipe, not just the model — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 6

Alibaba publishes the distillation recipe, not just the model

ServiceNow ships EVA-Bench 2.0 with 121 tools and 213 scenarios — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 6

ServiceNow ships EVA-Bench 2.0 with 121 tools and 213 scenarios

Ideogram releases open-weight image model built on JSON prompts — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 5

Ideogram releases open-weight image model built on JSON prompts

Microsoft puts token cost on model release cards — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 5

Microsoft puts token cost on model release cards

Morgan Stanley opens wealth platforms to AI agents via MCP — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 5

Morgan Stanley opens wealth platforms to AI agents via MCP

Tilde Research open-sources an attention variant built for forgetting — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 4

Tilde Research open-sources an attention variant built for forgetting

TinyFish open-sources Bigset, a prompt-to-dataset agent — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 4

TinyFish open-sources Bigset, a prompt-to-dataset agent

Cursor adds Premium seat and spending controls to Teams plan — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 3

Cursor adds Premium seat and spending controls to Teams plan

Mistral ships Search Toolkit to unify RAG ingestion, retrieval, and eval — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 3

Mistral ships Search Toolkit to unify RAG ingestion, retrieval, and eval

OpenAI Cookbook shows how to run its models on Amazon Bedrock — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 3

OpenAI Cookbook shows how to run its models on Amazon Bedrock

Opus 4.8 triples GPT-5.5's score on ARC-AGI-3 — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 3

Opus 4.8 triples GPT-5.5's score on ARC-AGI-3

xAI opens grok-build-0.1 API at $1 in / $2 out per million tokens — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / Jun 2

xAI opens grok-build-0.1 API at $1 in / $2 out per million tokens

Hassabis accelerates his AGI forecast to 2029-30 — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / May 29

Hassabis accelerates his AGI forecast to 2029-30

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic for frontier R&D — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / May 20

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic for frontier R&D

Cerebras clocks Kimi K2.6 at ~1,000 tokens per second — featured image for AI Insiders
Wire / May 20

Cerebras clocks Kimi K2.6 at ~1,000 tokens per second

Featured image for: Dell hits 5,000 AI Factory customers
Wire / May 19

Dell hits 5,000 AI Factory customers, names Eli Lilly and Samsung as deployers

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