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Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week

Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The rule took effect July 6. Before that, software engineers regularly burned through ...
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Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days

The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic's Fable 5 did most of the work. Developer Jarred Sumner says the switch came down to reliability. Zig kept producing ...
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GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public

Hedge fund Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab say a fine-tuned open-weight model outperforms the strongest AI models at evaluating financial documents, at a fraction of the cost. The numbers come ...
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Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less

Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1 model edges ahead of GLM 5.2 in coding while coming in at a lower price point. According to Artificial Analysis, it scores 51 on the Intelligence Index, tying with GLM 5.2, ...
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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"

OpenAI employee Jason Liu put the autonomous post-training into context. Sol didn't come up with a complete training recipe from scratch, since most of the configuration already existed from Sol's own ...
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Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it

Bytedance's AI video tool Seedance is sparking both outrage and quiet excitement in Hollywood. Earlier this year, a 15-second AI-generated video showing Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a fight scene went ...
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GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost

OpenAI's new flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, performs almost as well as Fable 5 in benchmarks but costs only one-third as much. According to the independent AI evaluation platform Artificial Analysis, ...
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Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents

Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, reportedly set to release in August. According to an internal memo seen by The Information, the company will merge its consumer and ...
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OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore

OpenAI's "Plugins" failed because the AI models weren't good enough. Plugins launched in 2023 to add web search and third-party apps like Gmail to ChatGPT. "That didn't work. It didn't work at all ...
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Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has officially released its AI model Hy3. The model uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 295 billion total parameters. Of those, 21 billion are active at any given time, plus 3.8 ...
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Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"

Anthropic says it has cut 80 percent of the system prompt for Claude Code. Tariq Shihipar, a member of technical staff at Anthropic, describes a fundamental shift in how AI models are steered, tied to ...
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AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago

The Remote Labor Index measures how often AI agents complete paid freelance projects at professional quality. In eight months, the top automation rate has more than quadrupled. The Remote Labor Index ...