Writer says its new AI model cuts costs by 52% amid token spending surge

New Kimi Benchmark Finds AI Models Still Struggle With Visual Perception

Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, released a benchmark called PerceptionBench built...

Unitree R1 humanoid robot, a cost-effective bipedal robot, standing in a laboratory setting.

Unitree R1 Robot Aims to Make Humanoids More Affordable

Edward Warchocki has a Rolex, over a million followers, and a habit of scaring off wild boars in...

Google AI image with subtle watermark, demonstrating user control over visibility.

Google Lets Users Disable Visible Watermarks on AI Images

Google is giving users a way to strip the little "sparkle" icon off AI-generated images, videos and...

Claude Code, an AI, performs daily maintenance on Anthropic's software, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Claude Code now runs daily maintenance on Anthropic's software

Anthropic has started letting its own AI coding tool loose on its own codebase, unsupervised, every...

AI Tools & Apps

Microsoft's Mico, a Clippy-like AI assistant, waves goodbye from a computer screen, symbolizing its retirement.

Microsoft Retires Mico, Its Clippy-Like Copilot Character

Mico had a shorter run than most of Microsoft's animated assistants. The yellow blob debuted in...

Microsoft Copilot app merge: AI assistant on smartphone screen, reflecting strategy shift, feature cuts.

Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps, Cuts Features in Strategy Shift

Microsoft is folding its two Copilot apps into one, and quietly burying a pile of features it built...

Capital One employee uses AI model on laptop, demonstrating enterprise benefits of open AI.

Capital One finds open AI models deliver enterprise-wide benefits

Capital One's AI strategy runs against the industry default. Instead of building its multi-agent...

August 10, 2026 • 4 min read

NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU powers on-device agentic AI, featuring Meta's Muse Glimmer, for advanced local processing.

NVIDIA RTX 5090 Powers On-Device Agentic AI with Meta's Muse Glimmer

Meta put out a new open-weight model this week, and it's not built for chatting. Muse Glimmer is a...

Business & Startups

OpenAI Accelerates Frontier AI Amid Rising Security Breaches

OpenAI just gave frontier AI a speed problem it apparently doesn't have anymore. The company...

Anthropic's Watermark API detects AI-generated Claude text, ensuring authenticity and combating misinformation.

Anthropic Launches Watermark API to Detect AI-Generated Claude Text

Anthropic plans to open its watermarking system to outside developers, giving them a way to check...

August 14, 2026 • 3 min read

Equity Podcast: Glimmer, Zuckerberg's Manifesto, and the Week's Headlines

Meta put out Glimmer this week, an open-weight model anyone can download and run on their own...

AI model interface with code, data visualizations, and a human hand interacting with a touchscreen. Lower token costs.

Writer's New AI Model Targets Multi-Step Tasks With Lower Token Costs

Writer launched a new flagship AI model on Thursday called Palmyra X6, built as a post-training...

Research & Benchmarks

Indonesian officials, UGM, Indosat, and NVIDIA representatives at the AI center launch, showcasing collaboration.

Indonesia Opens First University AI Center with UGM, Indosat, NVIDIA

Yogyakarta got a new building block in Indonesia's AI ambitions this week. Universitas Gadjah Mada,...

Robot hand reaching for a glowing brain, symbolizing AI research, near a "Study Contradicts Claims" headline.

Study Contradicts Claims That Autonomous AI Research Is Near

Anthropic and OpenAI have spent much of 2024 and 2025 arguing that their models are closing in on...

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an efficient AI agent workhorse, shown on a futuristic circuit board.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Designed as Efficient AI Agent Workhorse

A coding agent doesn't spend most of its time thinking. It spends its time running commands,...

Z.ai GLM-5.3 AI model boosts coding efficiency and long task performance without retraining.

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Boosts Coding, Long Tasks Without Model Retraining

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 this week, and the number that stands out isn't a benchmark score.

Policy & Regulation

Anthropic AI model text output, invisibly watermarked, demonstrating AI content authenticity and origin.

Anthropic Will Invisibly Watermark All New AI Models’ Text Outputs

Anthropic will start embedding invisible watermarks in text that Claude produces or even just...

Claude AI watermark on a document, sparking user backlash over workplace detection concerns.

Anthropic’s new Claude watermarks spark user backlash over workplace detection

Anthropic has started embedding invisible watermarks in Claude's text output, a change tied...

August 12, 2026 • 4 min read

President Biden speaks at a White House press conference on new AI policy, with a seal visible.

White House Expands AI Policy After Exponential Model Development

The White House is about to widen a testing regime it hasn't even acknowledged exists yet.

Elon Musk's Grok AI bots as independent teammates, working autonomously on complex tasks.

Elon Musk's Grok AI Bots Can Now Work as Independent 'Teammates

xAI rolled out Grok Bot this week, pitching it as an "AI teammate" rather than a chatbot you...

August 12, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

Writer says its new AI model cuts costs by 52% amid token spending surge

Writer put a number on the problem everyone in enterprise AI has been dancing around: token...

AI lab's advanced tech, glowing blue, symbolizes breakthroughs, yet raises concerns about human needs.

AI Labs' Breakthroughs Are "Pushing Us Further Away" From What People Need

Tim O'Reilly has been repeating the same line for three decades: create more value than you...

Kids excitedly compare AI to early cars and planes, symbolizing future innovation and technological wonder.

Kids Compare Current AI to the First Car or Airplane

Ask a room of teenagers about the last election or the price of concert tickets, and you'll get an...

August 11, 2026 • 4 min read

NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard diagram showing AI agent workloads routed across multiple LLMs for optimized performance.

NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard Routes AI Agent Workloads Across LLMs

NVIDIA released NeMo Switchyard, a library for routing AI agent workloads across multiple language...

Open Source

GLM-5.3 Scores 66.9 on DeepSWE v1.1, Trails Behind GPT-5 and Claude

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Wednesday, and within hours a developer at the Chinese AI startup was...

August 14, 2026 • 2 min read

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen 3.8 large language model (LLM) with 262K token context, a significant AI advancement.

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Models Released with 262K Token Context

Alibaba's Qwen team put out open weights for its Qwen3.8 model family this week, releasing them...

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3, a powerful open-weights coder, displayed on a screen with code snippets.

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 claims title of most powerful open-weights coder

Zhipu AI put out GLM-5.3 this week, and the Beijing-based company is calling it the strongest...

DeepSeek Harness AI code rival to Claude, open-source software on a laptop screen with glowing code.

DeepSeek Harness Launches as Open Source Rival to Claude Code

DeepSeek pushed two releases out the door on Thursday, and only one of them is a language model.

Industry Applications

Dyna-2 robot arm with grippers manipulates objects on a table, demonstrating zero-shot learning after video training.

Dyna-2 Model Scores Zero-Shot on 39 Robot Tasks After Video Training

Dyna Robotics says its new Dyna-2 model learned to fold hangers, tie rope and scoop food after...