OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost
OpenAI eyes January exit from “code red” John Werner / Forbes : The Wonder And The Promise Of GPT 5.2 Is Here Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert...
Google says Gemini 3 Pro sets new vision AI benchmark records, including in complex visual reasoning, beating Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 in some categories
Raising Concerns for Real-World Use Will McCurdy / PCMag : ChatGPT Overtakes Amazon, X, Reddit, WhatsApp, and Wikipedia in Visitors X: Demis Hassabis / @demishassabis : Gemini has always had exception...
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app
except when it gaslit me Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica : Google's new Nano Banana Pro uses Gemini 3 power to generate more realistic AI images Robert Hart / The Verge : Google's new AI image creator too...
Baidu unveils Ernie 5.0, an AI model to process and generate text, images, audio, and video, claiming it beats GPT-5-High and Gemini 2.5 Pro on some benchmarks
our latest natively omni-modal foundational model. It excels in omni-modal understanding, creative writing, instruction following, and more. We will continue investing in and developing more cutting-e...
How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the local government built a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west
or Hangzhou at all. Waiting for the next Deepseek “surreal” trauma moment, only to repress it soon afterwards... Time to reckon with the new world and rethink our place in it. S.L. Kanthan / @kanthan2...
An in-depth look at AWS' underperformance in the GenAI era, as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud gain ground, and how Anthropic could spark an AWS AI resurgence
Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. X: @rohanpaul_ai and @dylan522p X: Rohan Paul / @rohanpaul_ai : AWS is betting heavily on its cu...
Sources: Apple is in talks with Google about using Gemini to power a revamped Siri; Google has started training a model that could run on Apple's servers
new Siri has three personalities. One is Claude, one is ChatGPT, the other is Gemini. — problem solved. or perhaps you just built Perplexity 😅 [embedded post] Cam / @camsavage00 : insane that Goog...
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications Fidji Simo lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world
Ever since researchers began noticing a slowdown … Viktor Eriksson / PCWorld : ChatGPT interactions have more than doubled in just 6 months The Economic Times : Fidji Simo to head OpenAI's apps divisi...
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model
that may be changing Robert Brown / implicator.ai : From Altruism to Arms Race: Meta's AI Strategy Takes a Closed Turn Bluesky: M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler.com : Yeah... (from a couple weeks back) [emb...
Sources: OpenAI has agreed to rent additional computing power from Oracle, totaling ~4.5 gigawatts of US data center power, as part of its Stargate initiative
OpenAI is dead man walking then, Microsoft owns all the IP, and it burns $60+b in competitor venture capital. … @onefeincat : Enough power to send 3.71 Martys McFly back to 1985, and they're using it ...