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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe ...
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Gregor Kobsik

Read full article about: Microsoft AI bets on cheap specialist models instead of chasing the frontier Suleyman also wants swappable models that keep Microsoft from relying on one model family. Whether ...
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Pangram says its new AI text detector makes only one mistake per 24,000 documents

Pangram has released Pangram 4, a new model for detecting AI-generated text. The model is six times larger than its predecessor, with 14 times fewer false positives and six times fewer missed AI texts ...
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Deepmind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic

The majority of the researchers behind AlphaFold are now working on other projects, and almost a quarter have left Google Deepmind altogether. The restructuring marks a sharp turn away from the ...
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Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly four times the previous record of 7.8 percent set by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (Max). The ARC Prize team attributes the lead ...
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Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit ...
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S&P Global sees OpenAI as a "key credit risk" for Oracle and cuts its credit rating

S&P Global views OpenAI as a "key credit risk" for Oracle and has downgraded Oracle's rating from "BBB" to "BBB-," one notch above junk status. Oracle's AI business is burning through far more cash ...
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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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OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest

At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Division. Two of those problems were rated ...
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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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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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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeño," a custom chip built for LLM inference

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled "Jalapeño," a custom chip built specifically for large language model inference. OpenAI says the architecture delivers better performance per watt. Development took ...