Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, two versions of the same underlying AI model aimed at demanding work in software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and hardware development. The company has also reduced the standard API price to $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens. Fable 5.2 is broadly …
Disney and Adobe are entering a multiyear partnership to create proprietary generative AI models for Disney’s production and creative operations. Jess Weatherbed reports for The Verge that Adobe will give Disney early access to new technologies across its studios, theme parks, cruise line, and ESPN business. The companies plan to build customized models through Adobe …
OpenAI has received about $11 billion in fresh funding at a reported pre-money valuation of $1.25 trillion, according to people familiar with the transaction. Omor Ibne Ehsan reports for 24/7 Wall St. that the payment represents the first closed portion of a larger financing round. The company had reportedly sought to raise at least $30 …
Perplexity has introduced Teammates, a system of persistent AI agents designed to manage ongoing work across functions such as marketing, sales, customer support, operations, and finance. The feature is available on the web for subscribers to Perplexity’s $200-per-month Max plan. Teammates build on Perplexity Computer, the company’s AI system for carrying out tasks with tools …
Pangram has released two new detection models that it says can identify AI-generated images and videos, including content that has been compressed, edited, or mixed with real footage. In an official Pangram blog post, Isaac Kasahara writes that the company’s new flagship, Pangram Image 1.0, is designed for image detection and can also analyze AI …
Statistics generated or repeated by AI assistants can travel from obscure webpages into academic papers, business research and widely used online content, two new reports suggest. One experiment shows how easily a site filled with invented figures can attract AI traffic and citations. A separate study finds that fewer than half of the statistics cited …
Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, expanding its AI video model with native clips of up to 15 seconds, conversational editing, and lower pricing. The company says the model costs $0.07 per second for 720p video, a 30% reduction from Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. The new version supports videos from three to …
OpenAI has released Images 2.6, an image generation update for ChatGPT, Codex, and its API that adds GIF creation, faster generation, and more controls for editing images. The company says the model produces images 50 percent faster than its previous version and is available globally across ChatGPT subscription tiers. The most visible addition is native …
Mistral has released the weights for Mistral Large 4, its trillion-parameter multimodal model also known as “Le Chonk.” The move lets organizations download, run, adapt, and fine-tune the model on their own infrastructure instead of relying solely on a hosted API. In an official blog post, Mistral says the model is available under its Ecosystem …
Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open weight AI model that combines multilingual transcription, translation, speaker labeling, and audio question answering in one system. Kyt Dotson reports for SiliconANGLE that the company is also releasing Granary v2, an open source speech dataset and data pipeline intended to help developers adapt the model. The model …