AI adoption raises labour productivity at European firms by an average of 4%, but the gains are concentrated among larger companies. Iñaki Aldasoro and colleagues report for the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) based on data from more than 12,000 European firms. The researchers used a novel method to establish causation rather than mere …
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Pro, an updated version of its Gemini 3 Pro AI model. The company describes it as a step forward in core reasoning, intended for complex tasks where straightforward answers fall short. The model is now available to consumers through the Gemini app and NotebookLM, though access on those platforms is …
A bug in Google Gemini is causing chat histories to disappear from the sidebar for a large number of users. Entire conversation lists are going blank, with some users losing up to a year of stored chats. Reports have surfaced on Reddit, Google’s own support forums, and other platforms, affecting both free and paid subscribers …
French AI company Mistral has reported a 20-fold increase in revenue over the past year, reaching an annualised run rate of more than $400 million. CEO Arthur Mensch attributed the growth in part to rising European demand for AI services that are independent from American technology providers. Mistral, founded in 2023 and valued at around …
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has released M2.5, a new large language model that the company says competes with top-tier models from Anthropic and Google while costing significantly less to run. MiniMax offers two versions through its API. M2.5-Lightning runs at 100 tokens per second and costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million …
Google has added music generation to its Gemini app, allowing users to create 30-second tracks from text prompts or even images. Joël Yawili and Myriam Hamed Torres write in the Google Blog that the feature is powered by Lyria 3, Google DeepMind’s latest generative music model, and is currently available in beta. Users can describe …
A sweeping new survey of business leaders finds that artificial intelligence has delivered almost no measurable gains in productivity or employment so far. Sasha Rogelberg reports for Fortune. Among roughly 6,000 CEOs, CFOs, and other executives surveyed across the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Australia, nearly 90% said AI had no impact on their operations over …
A new term is emerging in the debate around artificial intelligence and writing: semantic ablation. Claudio Nastruzzi writes for The Register that AI tools do not just add errors to text. They also systematically destroy what makes writing distinctive in the first place. Semantic ablation describes how AI models erode high-value, precise, or unconventional language …
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a significant upgrade to its mid-tier AI model. The company says it outperforms its predecessor across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Sonnet 4.6 is now the default model in claude.ai and Claude Cowork and carries the same price as its predecessor, Sonnet 4.5, …
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.5, a new artificial intelligence model designed to function as a multimodal agent capable of processing text, images, and video. The QwenTeam announces this development on the company’s website. The model contains 397 billion parameters but activates only 17 billion per task, which the team says optimizes both speed and cost. This …