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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"

OpenAI has to initially limit access to its latest AI model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners at the U.S. government's request. CEO Sam Altman announced this during an internal Q&A session on ...
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OpenAI launches Claude Mythos rival GPT-5.6 Sol under government access it calls unsustainable

OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 generation includes the flagship Sol and two cheaper tiers, Terra and Luna. Sol matches or beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 across benchmarks, with a clear lead in agentic coding ...
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Anthropic gets US approval to bring back Claude Mythos 5

The US government has approved Anthropic to redeploy Claude Mythos 5, according to the company. The model is Anthropic's most powerful AI model for cybersecurity and can now be used again by US ...
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An AI model programmed nonstop for 19 days on a single MirrorCode task that cost $2,600 to run

Epoch AI's new MirrorCode benchmark tests whether AI models can recreate entire programs on their own. Claude Opus 4.7 leads with 56 percent, but every model still fails on the most complex tasks. In ...
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Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow

"Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs junior engineers and warns of an economic shock. "We're hiring more people with lots and lots of experience than we did before, because the ...
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Google keeps losing top AI researchers to rivals

Google appears to be hemorrhaging key AI researchers to competitors. Bloomberg reports that Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are planning to join Anthropic. Both are considered important figures ...
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Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle half or more of their work. That's according to a survey of roughly 9,700 Claude users (Chat, Cowork, Code) by Anthropic. About 33 percent see AI ...
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AI startup Lindy ditched Claude entirely for Deepseek, saving millions as cost pressure mounts on Anthropic

Anthropic better get moving on its IPO. OpenAI apparently already missed its optimal window and postponed. Now even Anthropic's explosive growth could come under pressure as companies tighten AI ...
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ByteDance's "iLLaDA" is a diffusion language model that keeps up with Qwen2.5

Researchers from Renmin University and Bytedance have released iLLaDA, an 8B language model that works differently from ChatGPT. It matches Qwen2.5 at the base level but falls behind after fine-tuning ...