Meta's AI app rockets to No. 6 on the US Apple App Store with an 87% download surge after the debut of Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, as the AI app landscape heats up with four of the top six free apps now AI-driven.
Anthropic, the $380 billion AI company behind Claude, sparks controversy after consulting Christian leaders to help build a morally sound chatbot, raising urgent questions about religious exclusivity and whether AI could ever be considered a 'child of God.'
Anthropic launches its 'Advisor Strategy' on the Claude platform, pairing the powerful Opus model with cheaper Sonnet or Haiku executors to deliver near-Opus intelligence at up to 11.9% lower costs, with a 2.7 percentage point performance boost on SWE-bench Multilingual now available in beta.
Anthropic restricts its powerful new Mythos AI hacking model to elite enterprise clients like AWS and JPMorgan Chase, sparking accusations that the move is less about safety and more about locking out smaller competitors while securing lucrative contracts.
Google Colab launches two powerful Gemini-powered features — Custom Instructions and Learn Mode — letting users personalize AI coding behavior and transform Gemini into an interactive step-by-step coding tutor.
HeyGen's new Avatar V AI system outperforms all tested rivals in lip-sync accuracy and realism, using a Diffusion Transformer and novel Sparse Reference Attention to capture identity and dynamic behaviors, achieving win rates between 68.9% and 85.7% in human evaluations.
Windsurf launches SWE-1.6, a blazing-fast AI coding model hitting 950 tokens per second, now freely available for three months, featuring smarter task execution with reduced overthinking and faster parallel tool calls powered by Fireworks and Cerebras.
TriAttention, a new open-source method, compresses KV cache by 10.7x and doubles inference speed on long reasoning tasks while maintaining full attention accuracy, using trigonometric frequency-domain compression and integrating seamlessly with vLLM for easy local deployment on memory-constrained GPUs.
A new open-source toolkit called Gemma Multimodal Fine-Tuner now lets developers fine-tune Google's Gemma AI models on text, images, and audio directly on Apple Silicon Macs, requiring no NVIDIA hardware and supporting terabyte-scale cloud datasets while keeping data fully private on-device.
Anthropic deploys Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful AI model deemed too dangerous for public release, in a $100M cross-industry initiative called Project Glasswing, partnering with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike to identify and fix critical software vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.