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Fable tops KernelBench-Mega as AI agents quadruple on real freelance work
A new GPU kernel record, a 4x jump on the Remote Labor Index in eight months, and OSWORLD 2.0 raise the ceiling on what AI agents can do.
Springboards launches Flint, an LLM built to escape the chatbot groupthink rut
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for a random number between 1 and 10 and you'll almost always get 7. Flint answered 3.7916.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per million input tokens
Sonnet 5 hits 63.2% on agentic coding, close to Opus 4.8's 69.2%, at a fraction of the price.
NVIDIA's inference software stack cuts DeepSeek V4 token costs 5x in one month
Baseten, Cognition, Together AI and Cursor are riding compounding software gains on Blackwell GPUs as inference economics shift to cost per token.
Google ships Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers
DeepMind's fastest image model generates in 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1K images; Omni Flash matches Veo 3.1 Fast at $0.10 per second of video.
NVIDIA ships Omniverse skills to train vision AI agents on synthetic defect data
Roboflow hit 95% average precision on Corning fiber defects using just 8 real images plus synthetic data from NVIDIA's new skill.
Flexion Robotics trains humanoids to run office errands autonomously
The Swiss startup, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, stacks reinforcement learning across every layer to make humanoids work without a human puppeteer.
China's Z.ai claims GLM-5.2 matches Anthropic's Mythos on bug-finding
The open-weight model lags on general tasks but reportedly closes the gap on cybersecurity — the exact capability US export curbs were meant to contain.
Sakana and 360 ship Mythos rivals as US ban on Anthropic exports holds
Tokyo's Sakana AI launched Fugu and China's 360 unveiled Tulongfeng within days of each other, two weeks into Washington's block on Anthropic's frontier models.
OpenAI joins Google, Apple, and SpaceX in building its own AI chips
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip, built with Broadcom, marks the latest move by frontier AI buyers to hedge against Nvidia dependence.
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 in three tiers, undercuts Claude on price
Sol, Terra, and Luna launch under a White House-monitored preview, with Sol priced at half of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.
Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI claims a 1,000x cut in inference power
The ex-Databricks AI chief released Un-0, an image model running on a simulated oscillator chip, with silicon schematics promised next.
IBM unveils nanostack architecture, claims first sub-1nm chip tech
The 0.7nm node packs nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized chip, with 50% more performance than 2nm silicon.
Google bakes computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash as a native tool
DeepMind folds its standalone agent model into Flash, letting developers build agents that drive browsers, mobile apps and desktops via one API call.
OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip built with Broadcom
The processor targets inference workloads and was co-developed using OpenAI's own models, with early tests showing better performance-per-watt.
GPT-5 Pro helps immunologist crack a 3-year T cell mystery
OpenAI says its top reasoning model gave Derya Unutmaz the breakthrough insight that closed a stalled immunology project with cancer implications.
Nvidia silicon runs 400 of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers
Nvidia GPUs, CPUs and networking now power 81% of the TOP500 and 90% of new entrants, with a clean sweep of the Green500 top eight.
Nvidia's Vera CPU lands at Los Alamos in three new supercomputers
Mission, Vision and Veritas will pair Vera CPUs with Rubin GPUs to run agentic science workloads, posting 7x gains over the Crossroads x86 system.
NVIDIA's new CUDA-X science software posts 14,900x speedup on telescope data
cuPhoton, DAQIRI, and ALCHEMI accelerate astronomy, particle physics, and materials simulation, with Lila Sciences cutting materials runs from weeks to days.
NAIRR pilot tops 700 research projects on NVIDIA DGX infrastructure
The NSF program's two-year run has accelerated fusion materials, infectious-disease detection, and fluid simulation foundation models.
JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer, posts results across brain, climate, and quantum
Four projects on the Jülich machine show what 20,480 Grace Hopper Superchips can do — from 1-km climate runs to a 50-qubit simulation.
Nvidia's Rubin AI servers run on 45°C coolant, killing data-center water use
The first 100% liquid-cooled platform from Nvidia targets $4M in annual savings per 50MW and a 100% cut in cooling water.
Subquadratic's SubQ posts third-party benchmarks for its sparse-attention LLM
The Miami startup says SubQ ran Nvidia's RULER 128 test for $8 versus $2,600 for Claude Opus 4.6, and Appen's evaluation backs the claim.
Nvidia's ENPIRE lets AI coding agents train robots overnight, hits 99% success
Teams of up to 8 agents from OpenAI, Anthropic and Moonshot taught robots to insert GPUs and cut zip ties without human input.
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