Anthropic Pays PhDs $500K Annually to Find Claude's Blind Spots
Anthropic is paying PhDs up to $167K for four months to turn their domain expertise into training data and evaluations for Claude.
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First-Price AI Auctions Deliver 86.5% Optimal Efficiency When Models Compete
New theoretical work shows first-price auctions can allocate prompts to AI agents efficiently, with welfare losses far smaller than the classical worst case suggests.
Black Forest Labs Slashes FLUX 3 Video 4K Prices by 50%
Black Forest Labs slashed FLUX 3 Video's 2K and 4K pricing in half and doubled generation speed, challenging Kling at the premium tier.
Runway Brings Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 to Private Enterprise Deployments
Runway is opening up its Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models for private enterprise deployment on Baseten with fine-tuning and reserved GPUs.
Anthropic Opens Singapore Office as Claude Usage Hits 6x Expected Demand
Anthropic plants a flag in Southeast Asia with its fifth APAC office and a government pact covering model evaluation, red-teaming, and responsible deployment.
Factory Acquires Mentlio to Cut Coding Agent Costs by 30%
Factory folds in YC-backed Mentlio to bring intelligent model routing and token-level ROI measurement into its autonomous software engineering platform.
Anthropic Commits $150M in Claude Access to 15 US Science Agencies
Anthropic pledges $150M over three years to put Claude, Claude Code, and API credits in the hands of scientists at NASA, NIH, NSF and other federal labs.
Cohere Opens Ottawa Office to Chase C$240M Federal AI Deals
Canada's lone frontier model lab plants a flag in the capital, bringing engineers and solutions architects within walking distance of its biggest customer: the federal government.
OpenAI Builds ChatGPT for Teens a Full College Planning Tool
OpenAI is rolling out a College Planner, flashcards, and quizzes inside its under-18 ChatGPT tier, with early usage data showing heavy learning use.
Higgsfield's Ad Multiplier Turns One Winning Video Ad Into Infinite Variants
Higgsfield's new Ad Multiplier decomposes a winning video ad into swappable parts, then rebuilds dozens of variants that keep the original pacing and audio intact.
Google Playground Turns Plain Text Into Playable Browser Games
Google Labs rolled out Playground, a browser-based platform that turns text prompts into playable 2D and 3D games with no coding required.
Boston Dynamics Taps Amazon's Alexa and Nova Leader Rohit Prasad as CEO
The former Amazon Alexa and Nova chief takes the helm at the Hyundai-owned robotics firm as it pivots from research darling to industrial Physical AI vendor.
Anthropic Expands Claude Startups With a $7,000 Package for Founders
Anthropic widens access to its startup program with up to $7,500 in Claude credits, a partner stack worth $45,000, and direct time with its Applied AI team.
Cohere's North 2 Gives Enterprise AI Agents Persistent Memory and Tighter Controls
Cohere's North 2 platform adds persistent agent memory, 15+ new features, and connectors to Slack, GitHub, and Notion for sovereign enterprise AI deployments.
Suno Speech Generates Narration and Music Together in One Pass
Suno's new Speech beta generates spoken audio and matching background score as a single track, extending the music app into narrated storytelling.
Google Kills Opal and Turns Gems Into Gemini Skills for Free Users
Google is retiring Opal and folding its no-code workflow ideas into Gemini Skills, a slash-command system replacing Gems worldwide.
Runway Ads Doubles Ad Spend Returns by Automating Meta, Google, and TikTok Campaigns
Runway just turned its internal ad machine into a product that generates, publishes, and iterates on Meta, Google, and TikTok creative autonomously.
MiniMax Drops Code 3.1 With a 1M-Token Flash Model and Five Reasoning Levels
MiniMax refreshed its coding agent with a new interface, the M3.1-Flash-Preview model, a five-level reasoning slider, and an upcoming M Plan subscription.
General Intuition Raises $220M to Train Robots on Billions of Gaming Videos
The startup spun out of gameplay platform Medal just closed a fresh round to open access to action foundation models trained on billions of clips.
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion to Challenge Nvidia
AMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for World Labs, betting Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence research will reshape its chip roadmap against Nvidia.
xAI's Grok Team Bots Give Entire Teams One Shared AI Agent
Grok Bot gets a shared, team-native mode with plugins, credentials, and per-user memory, moving AI agents from solo assistants to embedded coworkers.
Cognition Slashes Devin Review Costs by 70% With Smarter Model Routing
Cognition slashes Devin pricing 30-70% across modes while claiming the top spot on its FrontierCode benchmark through smarter model routing and caching.
Replit Acquires Atta to Turn Agent Chat Into a BI Powerhouse
Replit is folding Atta's purpose-built charting engine into its agent, letting anyone generate interactive business charts inside chat without writing SQL.
Anthropic Now Charges Developers for Claude's Blocked Safety Refusals
Anthropic will start billing for requests its classifiers block in three high-risk categories, citing coordinated abuse and false positive rates below 0.1 percent.
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