Artificial intelligence news, model releases, and lab announcements.
Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model even though the Defense Department has blacklisted Anthropic. One government, two positions.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 jumps instrument reading from 23% to 93% and slots in above a separate VLA model. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already running it.
Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17, a prompt-to-prototype tool that exports to Canva, not Figma. Figma's stock closed down 7% on the same day.
World ID is rolling out to Tinder US, Zoom, Shopify, DocuSign, and Okta. Tools for Humanity is betting iris scans solve the bot problem.
Cursor is in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation, nearly double its September mark. Revenue is up, but it's still losing money per indie seat.
OpenAI shipped a Codex update that can pilot desktop apps with a cursor, generate images in-line, and run parallel agents. It's the opening move in a real Claude Code fight.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is a 35B-param mixture-of-experts with only 3B active. Apache 2.0, runs on consumer GPUs, and it's already winning real tasks.
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 is state-of-the-art on SWE-bench and CursorBench, but independent tests show regressions on long-context retrieval and thematic reasoning.
Google shipped a native Swift Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing, voice, and Deep Research. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and how it stacks up.
OpenAI's new cybersecurity-tuned model can reverse-engineer binaries and analyze malware. It's restricted to verified defenders through the Trusted Access program.
Adobe renamed Project Moonlight to Firefly AI Assistant and opened a public beta. It runs multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, and more.
Anthropic just shipped Routines: Claude Code sessions as cron jobs, webhooks, and GitHub-event reactors. Here's what they replace, what they don't, and one rule to follow.