Apple licenses Huxe AI tech and hires team via reverse acqui-hire
Apple disclosed a deal to hire Huxe AI employees and license its intellectual property, signaling potential moves into personalized audio generation.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 outperforms Opus 5.5 in coding benchmarks at lower cost
New testing shows Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus 5.5 on two of three complex coding tasks while costing 42% less overall.
AI boosts output but splits junior skill growth in patent law study
A three-month trial shows AI improves drafting quality for all lawyers, but only seniors gain unassisted judgment skills while juniors see polarized results.
OpenAI releases proofs for 372 major math problems, including Unique Games Conjecture
OpenAI published solutions to 372 longstanding mathematical problems, including the Unique Games Conjecture, using an internal model that requires human verification.
Musubi releases open-weight decision model for real-time content moderation
Musubi has launched PolicyLM-1.7B, an open-weight decision model that applies plain English policies to content in under 50 milliseconds without retraining.
Dust: A zeroth-order transformer pretraining method that rivals backprop
Researchers introduce Dust, a zeroth-order optimization algorithm that perturbs activations instead of weights to train transformers without backpropagation, showing competitive performance at scale.
OpenAI deploys textGrain watermarking for ChatGPT in the EU
OpenAI is rolling out invisible text watermarks for ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union to comply with the EU AI Act, using a method called textGrain.
OpenAI safety lead resigns, citing broken culture and risky deployment
David Robinson, a long-tenured safety employee at OpenAI, has resigned and published an essay claiming the company’s culture prioritizes speed over necessary safety redundancies.
Google's Gemini 4 Argon leads in knowledge work but limits coding access
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship model that outperforms rivals in knowledge tasks and long-context reasoning, though coding results vary and availability remains restricted.
Google's Gemini 4 Argon matches top AI models at half the cost
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Argon, matching GPT-6 Astra on intelligence benchmarks while offering significant cost advantages through initial discounts and improved caching.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol with Astra-level performance at lower cost
OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol, a model that matches GPT-6 Astra's capabilities for coding and workflows at one-fifth the token price, while canceling the expected Astra update due to safety issues.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol with near-Astra performance at lower cost
OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol, a model that matches the flagship Astra on coding and computer use benchmarks while costing one-fifth as much per token.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 trades token efficiency for agentic performance
Anthropic's new model reaches second place on the Intelligence Index by using significantly more output tokens, matching top-tier agents in terminal tasks while lagging in factual knowledge.
AMD acquires World Labs for $8.2 billion to boost AI chip ecosystem
AMD is buying Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs to integrate physical-world AI models into its hardware roadmap and compete with Nvidia in robotics.
