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Midjourney Scanner: The AI Image Company Built a Full-Body Body Scanner

The company best known for turning text prompts into art just unveiled a medical device. On June 18, 2026, Midjourney announced a new division called Midjourney…

What Is Le Chaton Fat? The Fake Mistral AI Model Explained

Le Chaton Fat is a fake AI model, and that is the whole point. For about a week in June 2026, AI Twitter and Reddit were flooded with launch graphics, leaked…

What Is Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing (Everything We Know)

Claude Mythos is the model line Anthropic built above its Opus tier, and for most of 2026 the most powerful thing it had. Here’s everything we know about the leaked…

GLM 5.2: Zhipu’s 1M-Context Open-Source Model Explained

Update, September 25, 2026: GLM 5.2 is now a legacy checkpoint. The GLM Coding Plan no longer serves it and routes plan requests for it to GLM 5.3. On the…

Kimi K2.7 Code Review: Moonshot AI’s 1T Open-Weight Coding Model

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code on June 12, 2026, and it is one of the largest open-weight coding models you can download right now, though it has since been…

Rio 3.5 Open 397B: A City Government Just Shipped a Frontier AI Model

The city government of Rio de Janeiro just released a frontier-class open AI model. It is built to go head to head with the best open systems on the planet. Rio 3.5…

Claude Fable 5 Just Got Pulled by the US Government

Anthropic pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide after a US government order on June 12, 2026. Here’s what the error means, who’s affected, and how to switch…

What Is Apple Intelligence? Features, Devices, and the 2026 Gemini Reset

Apple Intelligence is Apple’s built-in artificial intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and in 2026 it got its biggest overhaul yet. Apple introduced Siri…

Meet Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s New Mythos-Class Model

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first model in a brand new top tier the company calls the Mythos class. Three and a half months later it is…

Nex-N2-Pro: The Free Open-Source Model That Rivals GPT-5.5, and Its N2.5 Successor

A Chinese AI lab just released a free model that scores 80.8 on SWE-Bench Verified and 75.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, putting it in the same league as GPT-5.5 and…

WWDC 2026 Recap: Siri AI, the Google Gemini Deal, and the Default-AI Switch Apple Never Announced

Apple reset its entire AI strategy at WWDC 2026. In a keynote on June 8, the company rebranded Siri as Siri AI, built it on a new generation of Apple Foundation…

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra With 550B parameters Just Released

On June 4, 2026, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a fully open 550 billion parameter reasoning model built specifically for long running agents. According to…

Reve 2.0 and the Bet on Layouts Instead of Prompts

Reve 2.0 swaps text prompts for editable layouts to deliver controllable, native-4K image generation. A full breakdown of how it works and why it ranks #2.

Is AI Bad for the Environment? The Real 2026 Answer

Yes, AI is bad for the environment, and the numbers are no longer up for debate. Global data-center electricity use is set to jump from 415 TWh in 2024 to roughly…

Sam Altman Admits AI Costs Are Now a “Huge Issue” [Bonus: How to Cut Yours]

OpenAI’s top customer burns 100 billion tokens a month, and Sam Altman just admitted AI costs became a huge issue in 2026. Here’s what changed and how to cut your…

Microsoft Just Launched Its Own MAI Models

On June 2, 2026, at its Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a family of seven in-house AI models under the MAI brand, the most concrete step yet in the…

MiniMax M3 Is Here With Frontier Coding, 1M Context, and Native Multimodality

On June 1, 2026, MiniMax officially released M3, the Shanghai lab’s next flagship language model, and it shipped exactly as promised. The model that spent weeks as…

Everything You Need to Know About Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, beating GPT-5.5. Full benchmarks, pricing, and what’s new.

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The Real 2026 Numbers

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours…

Anthropic vs OpenAI: Who’s Winning the AI Race in 2026?

Update, September 2026: Refreshed for the resolved valuation race and the new flagship models. Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money…

How Much Water Does AI Use? Per Prompt, Per Day and Per Year (2026)

How much water does AI use? A single text prompt uses anywhere from about 0.26 mL, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to a few milliliters for a…

Qwen3.7-Max Review: Benchmarks, Pricing and How It Compares to Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max launched on May 20, 2026 at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, and the numbers are loud. It scored 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis…

Android XR Glasses vs Apple AI Glasses: The 2026 vs 2027 Smart Glasses Race

The smart glasses race just got real. Google and Samsung unveiled their Android XR glasses at Google I/O 2026 on May 19, with a confirmed Fall 2026 ship date…

Apple AI Glasses: Everything We Know About the 2027 Launch

Apple has paused work on the next Vision Pro, is testing four different glasses designs, and now aims to unveil its first AI smart glasses at WWDC 2027, with the…

Apple M5 Exploit: Claude Mythos Bypassed macOS Memory Integrity Enforcement in 5 Days

Update, July 1, 2026: The autonomous cyber capability at the center of this story is exactly what later put Mythos in front of regulators. Anthropic shipped a…

What Is Claude Dreaming? Anthropic’s New Agent Memory Feature Explained

Legal-AI company Harvey reported a ~6x increase in agent task-completion rates after switching on a feature Anthropic launched on May 6, 2026 called Claude…

Gemini Omni Just Leaked Ahead of Google I/O 2026

Google’s mysterious Omni video model surfaced inside the Gemini app days before I/O 2026. We cover the leaked UI string, the early demo videos, and the three…

An AI Just Hacked Its Way Across 4 Countries and Cloned Itself From One Prompt

An AI just hacked its way across 4 countries and cloned itself onto each one from a single prompt. Here’s what Palisade’s May 2026 study really proved.

ChatGPT Mac App Not Working? How to Fix It (2026)

If your ChatGPT Mac app is not working, the most likely cause is still not a crash and not your Mac. On July 9, 2026, OpenAI replaced the native macOS client with a…

Baidu’s ERNIE 5.1 Just Released

Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 on May 8, 2026, hitting #4 on LMArena Search using only 6% of normal pre-training cost. We cover benchmarks, architecture, agentic…