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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5

The US government has approved Anthropic to redeploy Claude Mythos 5, according to the company. The model is Anthropic's most powerful AI model for cybersecurity and can now be used again by US ...
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OpenAI launches Claude Mythos rival GPT-5.6 Sol under government access it calls unsustainable

OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 generation includes the flagship Sol and two cheaper tiers, Terra and Luna. Sol matches or beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 across benchmarks, with a clear lead in agentic coding ...
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OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"

OpenAI has to initially limit access to its latest AI model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners at the U.S. government's request. CEO Sam Altman announced this during an internal Q&A session on ...
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An AI model programmed nonstop for 19 days on a single MirrorCode task that cost $2,600 to run

Epoch AI's new MirrorCode benchmark tests whether AI models can recreate entire programs on their own. Claude Opus 4.7 leads with 56 percent, but every model still fails on the most complex tasks. In ...
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Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow

"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. "We're hiring more people with lots and lots of experience than we did before, because the ...
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Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

The timing makes it worse. Shortly before, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI, one of the minds behind the reasoning approach powering Google's latest models. Within weeks, Anthropic and ...
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Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push

French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of around 3 billion euros at a valuation of approximately 20 billion euros. The talks with investors, reported by Bloomberg, are still ...
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Meta's Hatch AI agent could cost up to $200 a month and marks its first paid AI product

Meta is developing a paid AI agent product called "Hatch" that could cost up to $200 per month. Hatch is designed to be a user-friendly version of the open-source tool OpenClaw and will handle tasks ...
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At the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Anthropic co-founder says AI models show signs of introspection

Canadian AI developer and Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah presented Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" alongside him. True to Anthropic's brand, Olah couldn't resist suggesting that ...