Anthropic released an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model Monday, achieving new performance heights in software engineering tasks as the AI startup races to maintain its dominance in the lucrative coding market ahead of an expected competitive challenge from OpenAI.
The new Claude Opus 4.1 model scored 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, a widely-watched benchmark that tests AI…
Google releases Olympiad medal-winning Gemini 2.5 ‘Deep Think’ AI publicly — but there’s a catch…
August 5, 2025
Google has officially launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a new variation of its AI model engineered for deeper reasoning and complex problem-solving, which made headlines last month for winning a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) — the first time an…
Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese
August 5, 2025
After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals, Alibaba’s crack “Qwen Team” of AI researchers is back again today with…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT will reach 700 million weekly active users this week, the company announced Monday, cementing its position as one of the fastest-adopted software products in history just as the company prepares to release its most powerful language model yet.
The surge is a 40 percent jump from the 500 million weekly users ChatGPT had at the end of March and marks a fourfold increase from the…
Why open-source AI became an American national priority
August 4, 2025
When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House has elevated what was once a highly technical topic into an urgent…
Gen AI and the Next Computing Transformation
August 4, 2025
The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This architecture has delivered online services to billions globally and…
As AI continues to take on more and more new competencies, junior coding, as we knew it, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Tasks that used to be the bread and butter for junior developers — such as repetitive scripting, HTML layout or simple DevOps setups — are now being reliably handled by AI assistants like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer.
This is not just an upgrade…
Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks
August 1, 2025
Data platform vendor Informatica is expanding its AI capabilities as the needs of gen AI continue to increase enterprise requirements.Informatica is no stranger to the world of AI; in fact, the company debuted its first Claire AI tool for data in 2018. In the modern…
Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology.
While many…
OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media criticism and represents a striking example of how quickly privacy concerns can derail even well-intentioned AI experiments.
The feature, which OpenAI described…
