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Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce last night withdrew the emergency export controls it had issued previously around the model. The U.S. export control order issued on June 12, 202...

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.

Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they've struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen counter. AI promised to change that. Amazon debuted its new hardware powered by a revamped Alexa last ...

Japan’s AI robots plan just went from a talking point to a formal national strategy. This week, the government confirmed the numbers everyone’s been quoting: 10 million AI-powered robots deployed across 18 industries by 2040, backed by public funding of up to one trillion yen, or roughly US$6.1 b...

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal export control review. The decision marks the conclusion of an eighteen-day operational pause triggered by a US government export control directive on June 12, which forced the t...

NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, a diffusion language model built on a pretrained autoregressive backbone. It ships as open weights under the NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License. The release targets a throughput bottleneck in text generation. Autoregressive (AR) models decode one token ...

Google Research has released TabFM, a foundation model for tabular data. It performs zero-shot classification and regression through in-context learning. Predictions come from a single forward pass, with no per-dataset training, hyperparameter tuning, or feature engineering. The post Google AI In...

Wayve’s offering is part of a growing trend of AI startups using employee tenders as a strategic tool to attract and retain talent.

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap to Opus 4.8 on agentic coding, at cheaper Sonnet token pricing. The post Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example shared by Google de...

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Anthropic today released Claude Sonnet 5, a new AI model that the company says delivers near-flagship performance at mid-tier prices — a move designed to give cost-conscious enterprise developers access to powerful agentic capabilities just as the San Francisco-based AI lab barrels toward an init...

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

For most enterprises, a 90-second training video or a product explainer has never been an easy ask. It means a well planned brief, an internal film crew or an outside vendor, a shoot, an edit, and a round of revisions. Change one line of on-screen text due to a legal review and the whole chain ru...

Google is upgrading its AI image generation capabilities today with the debut of Nano Banana 2 (NB2) Lite, an optimized model built for rapid execution and tight infrastructure budgets. Technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image on Google's application programming interface (API), NB2 ...

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Meta AI releases Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive MEG brain-to-text pipeline reaching 61% word accuracy with open training code. The post Meta AI Releases Brain2Qwerty v2: A Non-Invasive MEG Brain-to-Text Pipeline Decoding Typed Sentences at 61% Word Accuracy appeared first on MarkTechPost.

OpenClaw's iOS and Android apps are companion nodes, not standalone chatbots. Each phone pairs to a self-hosted Gateway over WebSocket. This adds device hardware — camera, location, voice, and Canvas — to a local-first AI agent. Here is the architecture, the capabilities, and the trade-offs for b...