Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook

Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 Ma [...]

Mistral launches powerful Devstral 2 coding model including open source, laptop-friendly version

French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developer [...]

The best iPad deals this week include the iPad mini for $100 off

The iPad, of course, isn't the only tablet computer out there — it wasn't even the first — but Apple's version redefined the category. In our opinion, it's the best tablet you [...]

Arcee's U.S.-made, open source Trinity Large and 10T-checkpoint offer rare look at raw model intelligence

San Francisco-based AI lab Arcee made waves last year for being one of the only U.S. companies to train large language models (LLMs) from scratch and release them under open or partially open source l [...]

MiniMax M2.5 promises "intelligence too cheap to meter" as Chinese labs squeeze Western AI pricing

Chinese AI company MiniMax out of Shanghai has released its new open-weights model M2.5 under the MIT license.<br /> The article MiniMax M2.5 promises "intelligence too cheap to meter" [...]

Sakana AI's orchestrator adds Nvidia Nemotron to prove "collective intelligence" can rival single frontier models

Sakana AI is integrating Nvidia's open-source Nemotron models into its Fugu orchestrator, which dynamically combines multiple language models for specific tasks. The core argument: Open models on [...]

Perplexity AI unveils hybrid local-cloud inference system at Computex 2026

Perplexity AI, the fast-growing search startup now valued at $20 billion, unveiled what it calls the first hybrid local-server inference orchestrator at Computex 2026 on Monday night, demonstrating so [...]

The era of human web search is over: Nimble launches Agentic Search Platform for enterprises boasting 99% accuracy

Web Search has already been disrupted by AI — just take a look at how readily Google is presenting users with AI Overviews (summaries of search results) at the top of their results pages, how Bing e [...]

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI ra [...]