MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promises to make high-en [...]

Build for the new AI era with Microsoft and NVIDIA

Presented by Microsoft and NVIDIAEvery generation of leaders has its own business transformation challenges to face. A decade ago, modernization meant cloud migration. Five years ago, it meant enablin [...]

Apple reportedly delays its planned smart display launch to fall

Mark Gurman at Bloomberg is back with the latest rumors about what's afoot with Apple's future plans, and how its ongoing difficulties with artificial intelligence seem to be creating furthe [...]

Google finds that AI agents learn to cooperate when trained against unpredictable opponents

Training standard AI models against a diverse pool of opponents — rather than building complex hardcoded coordination rules — is enough to produce cooperative multi-agent systems that adapt to eac [...]

Surprise upset: GPT-5.5 beats Claude Fable 5 on brutal new Agents’ Last Exam benchmark

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI), alongside an advisory committee of over 300 domain experts, have launched Agent [...]

Nvidia-backed ThinkLabs AI raises $28 million to tackle a growing power grid crunch

ThinkLabs AI, a startup building artificial intelligence models that simulate the behavior of the electric grid, announced today that it has closed a $28 million Series A financing round led by Energy [...]

OpenAI turns its sold-out GPT-5.5 party into a monthlong Codex giveaway for 8,000 developers

OpenAI on Monday began emailing more than 8,000 developers who applied for its invite-only GPT-5.5 party with a surprise consolation prize: a tenfold increase in Codex rate limits on their personal Ch [...]

MeMo's memory model lets teams upgrade their LLM without retraining it — and performance jumps 26%

Enabling LLMs to acquire new knowledge after training remains a major hurdle for enterprise AI — current solutions are either too expensive, too slow, or constrained by context window limits.MeMo, a [...]

The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI

The Trump administration is locked in an internal battle over artificial intelligence regulation that has paralysed federal AI policy at the moment it matters most. Three factions are fighting for con [...]