Etiqueta: AI news

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 benchmarks, and breathless threads about a new Mistral frontier model called Le Chaton Fat. The name mashes French and English together for “the fat […]

GLM 5.2 arrived on June 13, 2026, and it lands with three headline numbers: a 744-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts design, a 1-million-token context window, and an MIT license that makes the weights free for anyone to download and run. Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI (operating as Z.ai) shipped it as a coding-first frontier model, and the timing […]

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. It packs 1 trillion total parameters, activates 32 billion of them per token, runs a 256K-token context window, and ships with open weights on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT […]

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 Open 397B comes from IplanRIO, the municipal IT company that runs Rio de Janeiro’s digital services. On its own benchmarks it edges out […]

A single text prompt to Google Gemini uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity and roughly 0.26 millilitres of water, around five drops. A comparable ChatGPT query sits near 0.34 watt-hours, meaning Gemini uses roughly 29% less energy per prompt. Those numbers sound tiny, but multiply them by billions of prompts a day and the footprint […]

On May 13, 2026, Amazon retired the standalone Rufus chatbot and replaced it with Alexa for Shopping, a new agentic AI assistant built straight into the main Amazon search bar. Rufus had helped over 300 million customers in 2025 research and compare products, so this is not a quiet tweak. The separate Rufus chat window […]

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 Claude Opus 4.7 on real coding work. It is called Nex-N2-Pro, it dropped on June 2, 2026, and it costs nothing to download. The model comes […]

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 Foundation Models developed with Google Gemini, shipped iOS 27 and macOS 27 “Golden Gate,” and, in the move that matters most for you, opened […]

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 945 TWh by 2030 per the International Energy Agency, mostly because of AI. Cornell researchers project AI servers alone will emit 24 to 44 […]

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 an architecture teaser is now live, and the pitch turned out to be real: frontier-level coding, a 1-million-token context window, and native multimodality, all in one open-weight model. […]