AboutYour accelerated guide to AI newsData PointsThinking Machines debuts a new type of model: Google’s AI mouse promises better human-AI interactionGitHub’s new Copilot pricing. Baidu’s smaller, faster flagship model. Google’s rethinking of mathematical research. RL Conductor’s orchestration of AI agents.Data PointsHow Anthropic aligns its models: OpenAI improves realtime audio capabilitiesHermes, aka the new OpenClaw. DCI, aka the new RAG. NLAs, or how to peek inside Claude. TokenSpeed, aka the new TensorRT.Data PointsUS government to vet new models: ChatGPT gets a model refreshAnthropic’s latest products for banking and finance. Drug manufacturers get AI gains they didn’t expect. US military augments Anthropic with new partners. Google DeepMind’s UK unionization vote.Data PointsChina shuts down Manus acquisition: All the details from Microsoft’s new deal with OpenAINvidia’s laptop-sized omnimodal model. Grok cuts prices, boosts context. OpenAI’s AGI principles. IBM’s latest suite of open Granite models.Data PointsOpenAI and Microsoft sever their exclusive relationship: DeepSeek V4 makes a smaller splashGoogle’s and Amazon’s huge bets on Anthropic. Google employees’ resistance to secret government use of AI. The U.S. threat to punish Chinese companies that distill U.S. AI models. An agentic system that autonomously designed a working CPU.Data PointsInsurance companies carve out exceptions for AI risks: U.S. military re-engages with AnthropicA San Francisco retail store run by an AI agent. OpenAI’s specialized life-sciences model. Anthropic’s designs on the market for graphic design. Wall Street’s AI-driven workforce adjustments.Data PointsHackers break into Claude Mythos: OpenAI launches a security-specialized competitor to MythosMaine votes to pause construction of data centers. Journalists at major U.S. newspapers push back on publisher’s demand to use AI. AI-generated talking-head videos that support President Trump flood social media. Humanoid robots outrun human world record in a half-marathon race.Data PointsAnthropic’s claims for Claude Mythos raise questions: 40 percent of U.S. data-center projects may be delayedOpenAI’s big bet on an alternative to Nvidia. Meta’s plan to build a virtual CEO. Financial risks of lending money to companies affected by AI. Luma’s AI-driven film production studio.Data PointsNvidia’s open AI models go quantum: Suspect arrested for attack on OpenAI HQ and CEO’s homeMuse Spark, Meta’s model for AI glasses, social media, and more. Rubber Duck, Copilot’s tool to make GPT-5.4 check Claude’s work. Claude Managed Agents, a built-in harness for enterprise tools. GPT-5.4-Cyber, OpenAI’s new not-for-public cybersecurity model.Data PointsChina’s showdown with NeurIPS conference: Claude’s emotion vectors aren’t feelings, but affect behaviorGoogle’s updates to its open model family. Cursor 3, a brand-new interface built for agents. Microsoft AI’s latest speech and image models. Anthropic’s clampdown on OpenClaw.Data PointsSora no more; OpenAI shuts down video maker: Tencent introduces ClawBot, an OpenClaw wrapper for WeChatAnthropic’s multi-agent harness design. A new voice agent benchmark. Arm’s chip design for data center CPU. U.S. White House’s AI proposal to Congress.Data PointsMiniMax’s M2.7 model competes with Gemini and Opus: Cursor’s Composer 2 does the same, but for codeMicrosoft’s latest image model. Google’s Stitch, a platform for designers. Claude Code Channels, another step towards OpenClaw parity. Anthropic’s denial of a back door into defense operations.Data PointsNvidia’s enterprise-focused NemoClaw gives OpenClaw a security boost: Claude Dispatch lets paid users authorize remote workGPT-5.4 Mini and Nano, optimized for speed. Nvidia’s own tiny-sized open-weights model. Midjourney updates to v8 in Alpha. Mamba releases third version of its state space language model.Data PointsPerplexity Computer hits desktop, mobile, Pro: Google releases Aletheia, its top natural language math agentDeepSeek testing favors local chipmakers. Nvidia’s reasoning-added retrieval method. Why OpenAI and Oracle shut down Stargate expansion. Meta’s giant deal with AI cloud provider Nebius.Data PointsDeerFlow 2.0 puts new spin on Claw-like agents: Anthropic sues the U.S., which shows no signs of backing downMeta’s purchase of Moltbook, a social network for AI agents. Iran’s attacks on data centers in the UAE and elsewhere. Google’s new multimodal embedding model. Grammarly’s AI ventriloquism using famous writers.Load MoreSubscribe to Data PointsYour accelerated guide to AI news and research