Disney is partnering with AI startup Animaj to dramatically accelerate its animation production process, reducing the time needed to create a five-minute episode from five months to less than five weeks. Corinne Reichert reports for CNet that Disney selected Animaj as part of its 2025 accelerator program after reviewing thousands of AI companies. The technology …
OpenAI has significantly improved the profit margins on its paid products this year, even as the company struggles to turn an overall profit. The ChatGPT creator now retains 70 percent of revenue after covering the computing costs for paying customers, according to a report in The Information. Mark Bergen reports for Bloomberg that OpenAI’s “compute …
The Allen Institute for AI has released Molmo 2, an open-source video model designed to compete with larger proprietary systems in video understanding and analysis. The launch aims to demonstrate that smaller models can serve as practical alternatives for businesses. Emilia David reports for VentureBeat. Ai2 released three versions of Molmo 2: an 8B model …
Researchers at the University of Zurich and Cologne University are creating large language models trained solely on historical documents up to specific dates. The team, led by Daniel Göttlich, Dominik Loibner, Guohui Jiang, and Hans-Joachim Voth, describes their project on GitHub. The models, called Ranke-4B, contain four billion parameters and are trained on 80 billion …
The leadership behind WordPress is planning a fundamental shift in how the world’s most popular content management system operates. A new proposal suggests treating artificial intelligence not as an optional add-on, but as a core component of the software. This change would place AI on the same level as the database, which is the essential …
Anthropic’s Claude AI model recently took over the management of a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom. The experiment aimed to test the autonomy and business logic of AI agents in a real-world setting. Joanna Stern reports for the Wall Street Journal that the project quickly devolved into financial chaos and social engineering. …
OpenAI aims to raise up to 100 billion dollars in a new funding round that could value the startup at 830 billion dollars. Kate Clark and Berber Jin report for The Wall Street Journal that the company needs this capital to fund its expansion. This fundraising effort comes at a time when the initial public …
Mistral AI introduces its latest model for optical character recognition to the market. Mistral AI reports on its company blog that the third version of its OCR software offers significant performance gains over previous generations. The update specifically targets challenges like complex tables, handwritten notes, and low-quality scans. The new model achieves a 74 percent …
Anthropic has released Agent Skills as an open standard, making the technology available across different AI platforms. The company first introduced skills in October as a way to teach Claude repeatable workflows. Now the system works beyond Claude, with Microsoft, Cursor, and other platforms adopting it. Skills are folders containing instructions and scripts that tell …
Luma AI has released Ray3 Modify, a new video generation model that allows users to modify existing footage while preserving the original performance. The tool is available through the company’s Dream Machine platform. Ray3 Modify addresses a limitation in AI video generation: the difficulty of maintaining timing, motion, and emotional intent when transforming scenes. The …