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Anthropic is testing whether Claude Code can handle daily maintenance of the company's own apps, from crash fuzzing to dead-code removal. In a few weeks, the AI created 388 pull requests, and 46 percent were merged after human review. Claude…
Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.3, a model that, according to its own benchmarks, is the most powerful open-weights coding model, with a 50 percent improvement over its predecessor through post-training alone. Trained for cybersecurity, GLM-5.3 helped security teams find 2,436…
Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the Gemini-powered service access to another source of personal health information. Under a multiyear agreement, data from Abbott’s Lingo continuous glucose monitor will be…
Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The China-focused large language model was developed in partnership with…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026. The model reuses the 743B GLM-5.2 base unchanged. Every reported gain comes from scaled post-training: more long-horizon task environments, more environment types, longer training. Terminal-Bench 3.0 moves from 4.6 to 28.3, and DeepSWE…
Cactus Compute released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The full model is a single 14MB binary that runs a session in about 28MB of RAM. It leads both Seal-Tools splits while…
This tutorial provides a complete workflow for building a compact, reasoning-focused language model. By streaming the SupraLabs reasoning corpus from Hugging Face, we apply quality filters and curate data for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). Using SmolLM2-135M-Instruct and LoRA, we demonstrate an…
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more…
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.
With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers. A chat feature creates instruments and plugins via text, while MIDI import and 32-bit export come without limits. That unlimited export clashes with…
