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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 Medical. Its first piece of hardware is the Midjourney Scanner, a full-body ultrasonic CT machine. It rings your body with roughly 358,000 ultrasound transducers to build detailed cross-sectional images, all without any radiation. Founder David Holz called it the first new whole-body medical imaging method in 50 years. The news was big enough that Bloomberg covered the pivot the same day. It is a strange leap for a startup whose reputation rests entirely on AI image generation. So the obvious first question is whether […]

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 kitten.” It had 30 trillion parameters, scored higher than every rival on charts that looked just real enough, and ran at a claimed 1,000 meows per second. None of it exists. There are no weights, no API, and no product page. This article explains what Le Chaton Fat actually is, where the joke came from, […]

Update, June 21, 2026: The first independent benchmarks have landed since launch and now rank GLM 5.2 as the strongest open-weight coding model, and the open weights are available for self-hosting. Scores and analysis are below. GLM 5.2 arrived on June 13, 2026, and it lands with three headline numbers: a 753-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 was not subtle. It went public just two days after the US ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to […]

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 eclipsed in scale by Moonshot’s newer Kimi K3 flagship. 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 license. It is also part of a wave of Chinese coding models making headlines this month, alongside ByteDance’s Seed 2.1 Pro, which just ranked #8 on Code Arena: Frontend. The headline pitch is efficiency, with Moonshot claiming the model uses about […]

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 […]