How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions
Nintendo's original Pokémon games are becoming a popular and strangely effective way to test and benchmark new artificial-intelligence models.
Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars
From Dildo Ads to Furry CEOs Alex Mahadevan / Poynter : My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 X: Paul Yacoubian / @paulyacoubian : Just found out if you try to delete your Sora app account yo...
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars
Within moments of opening OpenAI's new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS.
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and that has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open-source AI model that it says is cheaper than DeepSeek
chinese models really are taking over huh Simon Willison / @simonwillison.net : Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by Chinese A...
Anthropic adds “thinking summaries” to both Claude 4 models and is making its Claude Code agentic command-line tool generally available
Yesterday at Anthropic's first “Code with Claude” … Databricks : Introducing new Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models on Databricks Kahekashan / The Hans India : Anthropic Launches Claude 4 Sonnet and Op...
Palworld developer Pocketpair says a 2024 update was due to “ongoing litigation” and a new update is “yet another compromise”, as it disputes Nintendo's claims
apologizing to players Nintendo Life : Palworld Dev Announces “Disappointing” Game Changes Resulting From Nintendo's Lawsuit Push Square : Palworld Is Being Forced to Make ‘Disappointing’ Changes to I...
How Anthropic monitoring its AI models playing Pokémon games is helping the startup's researchers hone their thinking around the development of its agentic tech
Abram Brown / The Information :
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool
and it could be a game changer Ghacks : Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7: First Hybrid Reasoning AI Model Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : Claude enters the reasoning era Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India...
Palworld developer Pocketpair says Nintendo and Pokémon Company are seeking ~$65K in damages in their lawsuit and lists three patents it's accused of infringing
and How Much Money It's Being Sued For Lincoln Carpenter / PC Gamer : Palworld developer reports Nintendo's suing over 3 Pokémon patents for only $66,000 in damages, but a videogame IP lawyer says fig...