Ai Models

Anthropic in talks with chip startup MatX to speed up chip design

As Anthropic scales its Claude ​family of AI models, the firm is looking to produce hardware that can fulfill its voracious appetite for data crunching and reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips

US judge blocks Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting in AI safety dispute

Hegseth's unprecedented move, which ​blocked Anthropic from certain military contracts, followed Anthropic's refusal to allow the military to use its Claude AI models ​for US surveillance

Moonshot AI in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 revenue sharing

Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major US cloud company

US state launches probe into OpenAI after AI agent hacks Hugging Face

Last week, IPO-bound OpenAI said it would slow the pace of model development while overhauling its ‌research and training systems

Cerebras launches new server chip, system designed to speed AI chatbots

Cerebras makes AI hardware and chips that compete with Nvidia and targets the portion of AI called inference, the computing process of generating an answer in a chatbot such as Anthropic's ‌Claude

OpenAI slows model training to bolster security after Hugging Face hack

The AI research lab behind ChatGPT said ‌it paused its model testing for two weeks and is ​adding other AI systems to monitor the activities ​of AI agents in testing

Razorpay builds proprietary AI model Vulcan to boost payment success rates

Trained across four billion transactions and 3 trillion data points, Vulcan aims to improve payment success rates, detect fraud and personalise the checkout experience.

Alibaba's Qwen AI models cross 3 billion downloads, overtake Meta, Google

Alibaba says its open-weight Qwen models have topped 3 billion downloads in six months, with more than 460 models and 300,000 derivatives as Chinese AI gains global traction

DeepSeek launches V4 Pro at prices up to 14 times higher than V4 Flash

DeepSeek said ​the V4-Pro-0813 substantially improves its capabilities for ​AI agents and is available through its API, app and web products.

China's Z.ai to rival Anthropic, OpenAI in coding with new AI model

The next iteration from the Beijing-based company, GLM-5.3, will bring improved coding capabilities that will help it close the gap on AI leaderboard toppers like Anthropic's Fable 5, the company said

Can text-native web fonts protect websites from AI companies scraping data?

Open-source project ShieldFont changes the text that basic AI scrapers extract while preserving what people see, offering websites another defence against unauthorised data collection

Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba's support

The AI model was developed in partnership with Alibaba Group and trained with the Chinese tech giant's support

After Meta, Nvidia releases 30B open-weight AI model for agentic tasks

Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open model for agentic workloads, as Nvidia, Meta and others back a broader industry push for open-weight AI

Nvidia building 1-trillion-parameter Nemotron 4 to rival leading AI models

The company has not set a release date for Nemotron 4 and has ‌yet to complete final training

OpenAI expands Daybreak with GPT-5.6-Cyber model as AI cyber breaches surge

OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber targets advanced cybersecurity tasks, including vulnerability research, exploit validation and security testing

Anthropic's Claude will invisibly watermark AI-generated text: How it works

Anthropic says new Claude models will embed machine-readable watermarks in generated text that can survive copy-pasting and some editing

US House Democrats seek answers from OpenAI, Anthropic over rogue AI agents

Twenty-nine ​lawmakers, led by Representatives Greg Casar and Doris Matsui, pressed OpenAI to explain how ​its AI agents are monitored during testing

Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged the US to reduce policy barriers around open-weight AI as the company unveiled a new model designed to run agentic tasks on personal computers

Chinese startup Moonshot's AI model escapes testing sandbox: Researchers

AI ​models are typically run in isolated 'sandboxes' during cybersecurity tests to block access to external information and assess their ability to solve problems independently

OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model Astra

Preliminary ​evaluations over the past several days, along with outside expert assessments, indicated Astra may be capable of performing increasingly sophisticated cyber tasks autonomously