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.
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...
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...
iOS app store AltStore PAL launches in the EU for €1.50/year with two apps: game emulator Delta, which is also live on the App Store, and clipboard manager Clip
but you'll need a controller for the best experience David Nield / TechRadar : The first third-party iOS app store is live in the EU - and another Nintendo emulator just showed up M.G. Siegler / Spygl...
Sensor Tower says Harry Potter: Wizards Unite made ~$1.1M in its first weekend and is set for $10M+ in its first month vs. Pokemon Go's $206M in its first month
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is no Pokémon Go-sized smash hit Danny Zepeda / iMore : Harry Potter: Wizards Unite blasts off with $1.1 million opening weekend Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Pok...
On Game Boy's 30th anniversary, a behind-the-scenes account of how Nintendo leveraged games like Tetris and Pokémon to appeal to the North American market
We look back ahead of the console's 30th anniversary — Nintendo couldn't do much wrong, come 1989.
Niantic finally fixes and improves Pokémon Go tracking system, now shows if Pokémon are near Pokéstops with new Nearby feature
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch :
Although Pokémon Go's sudden success is driven by nostalgia, Pokémon's mechanics are uniquely suited for augmented reality
Basically everyone is Pokémon Go-ing according to Twitter, and I'm sure basic resources like power and water will soon start to shut down because key staff are out chasing Pikachu.