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AI models are the systems behind chatbots, coding assistants and tools that work with text, images, audio and video. Follow new language model releases, open-weight models, local AI and benchmark results. Our coverage looks at capabilities, context limits, access, pricing and evaluation methods so you can compare the evidence behind a launch, not just the claims in its announcement.
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China's AI models may be winning users by the million, but they are earning a tenth of what OpenAI and Anthropic make combined, according to estimates the Rhodium Group published on Thursday. The sharper point sits in the valuations: the research firm thinks investors are paying far more…
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A folder named cache carries a simple promise: deleting it is safe. A new report in LM Studio's bug tracker says the local AI app breaks that promise, with application settings, MCP server configuration, credentials, complete chat history and user-authored projects all stored under ~/.cache/lm-studio. The stinging part…
AWS AI Watch
Amazon has told the industry's loudest running argument where it stands: powerful AI models should reach the public only when they are ready and safe, and governments belong in the room when the rules get written. That places one of AI's biggest investors, model builders and compute suppliers…
Watch Desk
The argument over whether to slow down frontier AI has produced its first institutional sketch. Canada's prime minister wants a global AI stability board modelled on the body that watches the world's banks, the European Commission is offering Canada and the UK a partnership on model evaluation and…
Hugging Face Watch
LAION and TTS Arena have launched Voice Acting Arena, a public platform where listeners judge AI voices on whether they can act rather than merely sound real. Same scene, two anonymous performances, your verdict.
AMD Watch
AMD has filed its broadest MLPerf Inference submission ever, and it has arrived with fighting words attached. The company says its Instinct MI355X GPUs beat selected NVIDIA B200 and B300 submissions on the GPT-OSS-120B language model at eight GPUs, led the 72-GPU GB200 result too, and the brand…
OpenClaw Watch
More than 400 developers, entrepreneurs, students and technology professionals gathered at Strathmore University in Nairobi for ClawCon Nairobi, billed as the first community-led personal AI conference of its kind in Africa. The centrepiece was not a frontier model but OpenClaw, an open-source assistant designed to run on your…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI’s reported Navier-Stokes breakthrough has become a debate about what mathematical progress is for. The Atlantic says the company used 10,000 AI agents to tackle the problem in under four days, while mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleged that OpenAI had been influenced by work he and Anthropic researcher Levent…
Watch Desk
OpenArt has launched a public benchmark that ranks AI image and video models by the creative job they are asked to do. The early results suggest a useful rule for buyers and creators: the “best” model depends rather heavily on whether you are making a film, editing footage,…
Watch Desk
Good Start Labs is using games as controlled training environments for AI agents, and its early results suggest that how an agent learns may matter as much as the model underneath it. The company’s most concrete result so far is an experiment in which training a terminal agent…
AWS AI Watch
If your AI application keeps sending the same long document, system prompt or tool definitions, Amazon Bedrock can now reuse that context instead of processing it from scratch every time. AWS says prompt caching can cut cached input-token costs by up to 90% on cache hits and reduce…
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a practical route for teaching Qwen3-8B to tag product catalogues consistently. The walkthrough uses SageMaker to fine-tune the model on a nine-category schema, optimise it with verifiable rewards, then process catalogue jobs asynchronously. That is a more concrete proposition than simply asking a frontier model…
Watch Desk
AI-assisted development is pulling more people and more packages into software pipelines, while attackers are increasingly targeting the machinery that builds and distributes code. Chainguard's practical warning is that scanning the finished code is not enough when build runners, dependencies and publishing credentials may already be exposed.
Watch Desk
Reef has been open-sourced as infrastructure for AI agents that learn from live work while continuing to serve users. Its important idea is that improvement should cover the whole agent, not just model weights, while every proposed update faces evaluation and version control before release.
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has launched an AI-literacy campaign for US voters ahead of November’s midterm elections. Its useful core is refreshingly concrete: check an AI answer’s sources, recheck important details, then use current state or local election guidance before acting.
Watch Desk
LM-Kit has launched LM-Kit One, a private AI application server for Windows, Linux and macOS that lets organisations run document intelligence, knowledge search and agents on infrastructure they control. The practical pitch is simple: use current AI tools without automatically sending company documents and prompts to an external…
