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Google moved Demis Hassabis out of the DeepMind CEO seat. Koray Kavukcuoglu now runs Gemini.
Sundar Pichai made Hassabis chair of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist. Koray Kavukcuoglu takes the Gemini org, and Jeff Dean is leaving.
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Meta's Muse Code: a terminal agent built for repos most devs never touch
Meta's Muse Code is in beta on macOS and Linux, priced at $1.25 per million input tokens. Meta's own benchmarks put it behind Claude Opus 5.
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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max beats Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench, and the weights go public next week
Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE that tops Claude Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and trails it badly on SWE-bench Pro. It's the first open Max-tier Qwen.
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Ten decade-old math problems fell to an unreleased OpenAI model, for about $2,000 of tokens each
OpenAI published ten results in math and theoretical CS from an internal build of Astra, with Lean 4 certificates for every proof. What that verification does and doesn't settle.
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DeepSeek's new 304B agentic model now runs on a single 128GB workstation
Salvatore Sanfilippo repacked DeepSeek V4 Flash into a lossless MXFP4 GGUF that streams from SSD at over 20 tokens a second. The hardware bill, and where hosted still wins.
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Claude Opus 5 nears Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 at the same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. It nears Fable 5's intelligence at half the cost, with new effort and fallback controls.
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Google shipped three Gemini Flash models but held back its flagship Pro
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a cyber specialist, and teased Gemini 4. The 3.5 Pro tier it promised in May still isn't out.
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Kimi K3 trades blows with Anthropic's Fable, and Moonshot is opening the weights
Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 put open-weight AI next to the frontier this month. What each model is good at, and why the benchmarks mislead.
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GitHub ran four frontier models through Copilot's harness. None won every task.
GitHub benchmarked Copilot's agent harness against Claude Code and Codex CLI on five tests. The token savings are real, and the best model depends on the task.
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Claude Sonnet 5: cheaper agents on paper, until you count the new tokenizer's tokens
Anthropic's Sonnet 5 lands as the default free model with near-Opus quality at a lower price, but a new tokenizer quietly inflates the English bill by 1.4x.
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The US lifted its export ban on Anthropic's Fable 5. The model returns Wednesday.
The Commerce Department cleared Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day export-control freeze. Anthropic redeploys Fable 5 globally on Wednesday with tighter safeguards.
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The White House told OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6. Frontier models now need government sign-off.
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to trusted partners, with the government vetting access customer by customer. Here's what that gatekeeping means.
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Google reportedly delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July to keep tuning the model
Google has pushed its frontier Gemini 3.5 Pro to July while Flash already ships, according to Business Insider. Here's what slipped and why it matters.
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Anthropic wants Congress to punish Alibaba over 28.8 million Claude queries
Anthropic says Alibaba ran the largest distillation campaign it has caught, using 25,000 fake accounts to copy Claude. Here is what that claim actually means.
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GLM-5.2 was trained on Huawei chips, not Nvidia. The open weights beat GPT-5.5 on coding.
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 is a free-to-download model trained without Nvidia silicon. Here's what the benchmarks claim and why developers should care.
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The US held off blacklisting DeepSeek. More than 100 Chinese firms are stuck in limbo
The Commerce Department paused adding DeepSeek and 100+ Chinese firms to the Entity List. Here's what the export-control blacklist does and why DeepSeek was spared.
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Days after opening Fable 5 to the public, a US government order forced Anthropic to pull it
A Commerce Department export directive forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users, days after opening Fable 5 to the public.
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Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first public Mythos-class model. It tops SWE-Bench Pro at 80.3%.
Claude Fable 5 hits 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro and ships on Bedrock and Copilot at $10/$50 per million tokens, free on paid plans only through June 22.