For months, companies threw money at AI tools without measuring results. Now the hangover is here. Uber is capping AI spend, startups are switching to cheaper models, and with OpenAI and Anthropic heading for IPOs, the efficiency question suddenly matters a lot.
The Trump administration told OpenAI that GPT-5.6 won't get a normal public launch. Instead, access will be approved customer by customer. It's the first time the US government has directly intervened in a frontier model release.
After Nobel laureate John Jumper, Google is set to lose two more key Gemini minds to Anthropic, Bloomberg reports — three high-profile exits in six days. The driver: the looming IPO.
An immunologist loads data from a shelved experiment into GPT-5 Pro — and within minutes the model delivers the mechanistic explanation his lab had been stuck on for three years.
With /goal, you can hand Grok Build a larger task — the agent plans it, works through it, and verifies its own result. Three models split the pipeline. Sounds familiar.
Anthropic has formally accused Alibaba of running a massive distillation campaign against Claude, using 25,000 fraudulent accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to extract its most valuable capabilities.
The Fable 5 negotiations are taking unexpected turns: Dario Amodei has been pulled from White House talks, and a startup is suing the U.S. government over the ban.
Mistral has launched OCR 4 — a document recognition model supporting 170 languages, paragraph-level bounding boxes, and self-hosting options. All for $4 per 1,000 pages.