Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnings. The message is efficiency ov…
Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic’s Mythos. The cybersecurity model […]
On Sunday evening, as Spain and Argentina played out the World Cup final, the mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a short message on X. The Jacobian conjecture, he wrote, is false. He thanked a friend for asking about it, and another friend, “fable,” fo…
A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in…
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn’t resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
We spent two years asking whether AI would lie to us. The more useful question this summer is what happens once we hand it the keys. Give a model your Gmail, your calendar, a memory and the power to act, and its mistakes stop being embarrassing. They s…
China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America’s lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming […]
Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. CNBC confirmed the early-stage discussions. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billi…
1Password can now sign Claude into websites without exposing passwords or one-time codes, but the protection ends after login when the AI begins operating inside your account.
Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board…