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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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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps

Amazon is launching two new AWS services: AWS Continuum, which automates the fixing of code vulnerabilities, and AWS Context, which feeds AI agents business knowledge through a knowledge graph to ...
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ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls

ChatGPT gets better at scheduled tasks. OpenAI added a new "Scheduled" page to the sidebar that puts all active tasks in one place. Users can view, pause, edit, or delete tasks from there. Research ...
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More people get news from AI chatbots, but trust remains low

Global use of AI chatbots for news has risen from 7 to 10 percent, according to the Reuters Institute's Digital News Report 2026. While 44 percent of active users trust AI-generated news, only 4 ...
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Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps

Adobe is rolling out its "creative agent" across Creative Cloud apps like Premiere and Photoshop, plus third-party AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Users describe what they want, and the software ...
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Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD bet $310 million on AI startup building 3D world models

Amazon, Nvidia's and AMD's venture arms are investing $310 million in AI startup Odyssey ML, which builds world models that simulate the physical world in 3D. The round values Odyssey at $1.45 billion ...
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Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons

Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 with a stable 1-million-token context under the MIT license. On hours-long coding tasks, the open-source model trails Anthropic's Opus models by just a few ...
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Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science

Adrian de Wynter, a researcher at Microsoft and the University of York, has built a working neural network inside the map editor of the legendary strategy game Age of Empires II. It sounds like a joke ...
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Nvidia research shows robots that train themselves through AI coding agents

Researchers from Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon University, and UC Berkeley are using AI coding agents to teach robots dexterous grasping in the real world. A fleet of eight robots hits up to 99 percent ...
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OpenAI researchers want to predict how often AI models will fail before launch

OpenAI researchers have developed a method called "Deployment Simulation" to predict AI errors before release more accurately than standard safety tests. The method uses real, anonymized user ...