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Is Claude Code Free? Free Ways to Use It in 2026

Claude Code is free to install but not free to run. The command-line tool itself is free and open-source, so downloading it costs nothing, but every task it…

DeepSeek R2: Release Date, Rumors, and What to Expect

As of August 2026, DeepSeek R2 still has not launched, and DeepSeek has never confirmed a release date. The company that shook the AI world with R1 in early 2025…

GLM 5.5: Gerüchte zur Veröffentlichung und was als Nächstes kommt

GLM 5.5 soll laut einem CGTN-Bericht vom 30. Juni über Zhipu AI im August 2026 erscheinen. Das würde es zum direkten Nachfolger von GLM-5.2 machen, dem…

Is Claude AI Free? What You Get on the Free Plan in 2026

Yes, Claude AI is free. You can sign up at claude.ai with no credit card and start chatting straight away, and as of July 1, 2026 the free plan runs Claude Sonnet…

Claude Sonnet 5 Just Launched

On June 30, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, the newest version of its balanced mid tier model and the most agentic Sonnet the company has ever shipped. It…

LongCat-2.0: Meituan’s 1.6 Trillion-Parameter Open-Source Coding Model

Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a native 1-million-token context window, released on June 30, 2026…

AI Model Release Delays Explained: The US Government Wants to Review New Models First

Update, July 1, 2026: The hardest example below has partly unwound. The US lifted the export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, and Fable 5…

Seedance 2.5 erklärt: ByteDances 30-Sekunden-KI-Videomodell und das neue 4K Seedance 2.0

ByteDance hat soeben Seedance 2.5 vorgestellt, ein KI-Videomodell, das einen vollständigen 30-Sekunden-Clip in einem einzigen Durchlauf ohne Nachbearbeitung…

Sakana Fugu: The New AI Model That Orchestrates Other AI Models

On June 22, 2026, Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Sakana Fugu, and it works unlike almost any model you’ve used. Instead of trying to be the smartest single brain in…

Seed 2.1 Pro Review: ByteDance’s New Model Matching Claude Opus 4.6

ByteDance’s new Seed 2.1 Pro scored 1539 on Code Arena: Frontend, landing at #8 in the world and drawing level with Claude Opus 4.6. That is a remarkable result for…

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…

Was ist Le Chaton Fat? Das gefälschte Mistral-KI-Modell erklärt

Le Chaton Fat ist ein gefälschtes KI-Modell, und genau das ist der Witz. Etwa eine Woche lang im Juni 2026 wurden KI-Twitter und Reddit mit Launch-Grafiken…

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

Claude Mythos is Anthropic’s most powerful AI model ever built. Here’s everything we know about the leaked model, its capabilities, the Capybara codename, and when…

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

Update, July 28, 2026: GLM 5.2 is no longer the strongest open-weight model. Kimi K3 shipped its weights on July 27, 2026 and outscores it on the Artificial…

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…

iOS 27: Release Date, New Features, and Every Supported iPhone

The iOS 27 public beta is live. Apple released it on July 14, 2026, and for the first time anyone can test the headline feature, a complete rebuild of Siri, without…

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. At WWDC 2026 on June…

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. Seven weeks later it still sits at…

Nex-N2-Pro: Das kostenlose Open-Source-Modell, das GPT-5.5 Paroli bietet

Ein chinesisches KI-Labor hat gerade ein kostenloses Modell veröffentlicht, das 80,8 auf SWE-Bench Verified und 75,3 auf Terminal-Bench 2.1 erreicht und es damit…

WWDC 2026 Recap: Siri AI, the Google Gemini Deal, and Your New Default-AI Choice

Apple just 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…

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…