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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 Alibaba’s Qwen 3.7 Plus on several tests, though the open-weight benchmark crown now belongs to GLM 5.2. That is not a typo. A city hall shipped a 397-billion-parameter model under a fully open license. Here is the honest version of the story. Rio 3.5 Open 397B is not built from scratch. It is fine-tuned from […]

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 of everyday AI use becomes very real. So which AI is the most eco-friendly, and is switching to a dedicated “green” AI tool actually worth it? This guide ranks the mainstream models by energy and water use, breaks down the dedicated eco-friendly AI tools worth knowing, and shows you the single most effective thing you […]

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 is gone, and its recommendations and product expertise now live inside a single, more capable assistant. If you opened the Amazon app recently and noticed Rufus missing, you did not lose anything. This guide explains exactly what happened to Rufus, what Alexa for Shopping can do, how to access it for free, and whether the […]

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 from Nex AGI, ships under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, and is built specifically for agentic tasks like writing code, calling tools, and running long, multi-step workflows on its own. This is one of the clearest signs yet that open-source AI has caught up with the frontier on the tasks developers actually care about. In […]

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 a new Extensions framework that lets you set Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok as the default AI across the system. It was also Tim Cook’s final keynote as CEO before John Ternus takes over on September 1, capping it as the biggest AI shift in Apple’s history. If the rebuilt assistant ever stops responding, see […]

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 million metric tons of CO₂ and consume 731 to 1,125 million cubic meters of water per year by 2030. That is equivalent to adding 5 to 10 million cars to U.S. roads and matching the household water use of 6 to 10 million Americans. That is the bad news, and it is real. The longer […]

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. MiniMax calls it the first and only open-weight model to bring all three together. Open weights sit at the heart of open source AI, the category of models you can download and run yourself instead of renting access through a closed API. The architecture story we covered before launch held up. M3 is built on […]

もしあなたが今後数年で大学を卒業するのであれば、誰もが予測できないほどのスピードで変化する雇用市場に足を踏み入れることになる。一部のAIリーダーによれば、エントリーレベルのホワイトカラーの仕事の半分は5年以内に自動化される可能性がある一方、この世代は一人起業家として10億ドル規模の企業を立ち上げるのに役立つツールを利用できると主張する人もいる。これらの予測の隔たりは、仕事の未来がいかに不確かなものになっているかを明らかにしている。セールスフォースは最近、AI能力を理由に4,000人の雇用を削減した。他の企業も、人工知能が仕事を処理できる特定の職務を廃止しようとしている。一方、若い起業家たちは、こうした [...] 続きを読む

人の反AI活動家が現在、大手AI企業本社の前で10日以上にわたるハンストを行っている。ギド・ライヒスタッターはAnthropic社のオフィスの外で、マイケル・トラッツィはDeepMind社で抗議活動をしている。両者とも、人工知能への道は人類に存亡の危機をもたらすと主張している。彼らの主張によれば、AI企業は世界中の家族や子供たちに危害を加えかねない危険な領域に向かって突き進んでいるという。この抗議行動は、現在のAI開発は無謀であり、破滅的な事態を招きかねないと考える人々の、大きくなりつつあるがまだ小さな運動を代表するものである。ライヒスタッターは2児の父であり、以前は28時間にわたって橋の上で抗議活動を行った。

One in four young adults is now having regular conversations with AI romantic partners, spending an average of 50 minutes per week chatting with artificial companions. This is happening right now, according to a new research lead by Brian Willoughby, a professor at Brigham Young University. The team surveyed nearly 3,000 American adults about their use of romantic AI technologies. The results show that 19% of all adults have interacted with AI chatbots designed as romantic partners, while 13% actively seek out AI-generated social media accounts featuring idealized virtual people. Also, people in committed relationships are actually more likely to use romantic AI than single people, challenging assumptions about loneliness […]