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MCP and the innovation paradox: Why open standards will save AI from itself

Bigger models aren’t driving the next wave of AI innovation. The real disruption is quieter: Standardization. Launched by Anthropic in November 2024, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI applications interact with the world beyond their training data. Much like HTTP and REST standardized how web applications connect to services, MCP standardizes how AI models connect to…
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You can now fine-tune your enterprise’s own version of OpenAI’s o4-mini reasoning model with reinforcement learning

OpenAI today announced on its developer-focused account on the social network X that third-party software developers outside the company can now access reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) for its new o4-mini language reasoning model. This enables them to customize a new, private version of it based on their enterprise’s unique products, internal terminology, goals, employees, processes and…
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Anthropic launches Claude web search API, betting on the future of post-Google information access

Anthropic has introduced a web search capability for its Claude AI assistant, intensifying competition in the rapidly evolving AI search market where tech giants are racing to redefine how users find information online. The company announced today that developers can now enable Claude to access current web information through its API, allowing the AI assistant to conduct multiple progressive…
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Meet the new king of AI coding: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition dethrones Claude 3.7 Sonnet

There’s a new king on the throne of AI coding models: Today, Google’s DeepMind AI research unit unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro “I/O” edition, a new version of its hit Gemini 2.5 Pro multimodal large language model (LLM) released back in March that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said on X is “the best coding model we’ve ever built!” Indeed, the initial benchmarks released by the company…
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