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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 …
ByteDance faces mounting pressure from major entertainment companies over its Seedance video generation tool. Disney and Paramount Skydance have sent cease-and-desist letters to the Chinese technology giant, accusing it of copyright infringement. Disney’s lawyers claim ByteDance provides users with a “pirated library” of copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel and other franchises. David Singer, a …
OpenAI has removed the word “safely” from its mission statement, a change documented in its 2024 tax filing with the Internal Revenue Service. The deletion coincides with the company’s transformation from a nonprofit organization into a for-profit business. The original mission statement from 2022 and 2023 read: “to build general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) that safely …
Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw, joins OpenAI to work on bringing AI agents to mainstream users. OpenClaw will transition to an independent foundation while OpenAI sponsors the project. Steinberger built OpenClaw as a personal project that unexpectedly gained massive adoption. The framework attracted 196,000 GitHub stars and 2 million weekly …
ByteDance has released Seedance 2.0, an artificial intelligence model that generates videos from text prompts. The system can process text, images, audio, and video simultaneously. ByteDance states the technology is designed for professional film, e-commerce, and advertising productions. The model has generated significant attention on social media. One viral video depicted a rooftop fight between …
Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, making it the second-largest private tech fundraising in history after OpenAI’s $40 billion raise. The round was led by Coatue and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, with participation from numerous investors including Microsoft and Nvidia. The company reports a post-money valuation between $350 billion and …
Amazon is developing artificial intelligence tools designed to speed up film and television production while reducing costs, even as concerns grow in Hollywood about job losses and industry transformation. Greg Bensinger reports for Reuters that Albert Cheng, a veteran entertainment executive at Amazon MGM Studio, leads a small team building AI applications for the entertainment …
Romance novelist Coral Hart produces over 200 books annually using artificial intelligence, earning six figures from sales on Amazon. What once took her months now takes 45 minutes per novel. Alexandra Alter reports for The New York Times that the romance industry is rapidly adopting AI writing tools, despite significant controversy within the community. Hart, …
Moltbook, a social network designed for AI agents to interact without human interference, became a viral sensation before exposing fundamental limitations in current AI technology. The platform reveals more about human fascination with artificial intelligence than about the future of autonomous agents. Will Douglas Heaven writes for MIT Technology Review that the site attracted over …