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Here is what an LLM that knows nothing after 1930 thinks our world looks like in 2026

"Talkie" is a 13B-parameter language model trained only on texts written before 1931. It doubts a second world war will happen and pictures 2026 as a world of steamships, railroads, and penny novels.
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OpenAI misses revenue targets as Anthropic and Google close in

OpenAI missed internal revenue and user targets for the first quarter of 2026, with fast-growing competition from Google and Anthropic as a key factor. Massive future spending commitments of around ...
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Google signs AI deal with the Pentagon, ignoring protest from over 600 employees

Google has signed a contract letting the Pentagon use its AI models for classified tasks, on the same day over 600 employees protested the deal in an open letter. Legal experts say the contract's ...
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Meta wants to power AI data centers with solar energy from space

Meta has signed a deal with startup Overview Energy for up to one gigawatt of space-based solar power to feed the massive energy demands of its AI data centers. Satellites would collect sunlight in ...
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OpenAI kills its dedicated coding model Codex again, folding it into GPT-5.5

With GPT-5.4, OpenAI rolled its separate Codex model for programming tasks into the main model. There's no dedicated coding line anymore, explains Romain Huet, OpenAI's Head of Developer Experience.
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Qwen3.6-27B beats much larger predecessor on most coding benchmarks

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-27B, a new dense open-source model with 27 billion parameters. According to Alibaba, the model outperforms its much larger predecessor, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (397 billion ...
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China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus

China's economic authority NDRC is forcing Meta to unwind its already completed $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus. Reversing the deal is complicated since Meta has already integrated the ...
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Anthropic says stronger AI models cut better deals, and the losers don't even notice

In a week-long experiment, Anthropic let Claude agents buy and sell goods for employees. The result: stronger models negotiated better prices. The catch: the people stuck with weaker agents had no ...
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OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price

GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro are now both available through OpenAI's Responses and Chat Completions API, each with a one million token context window. "Agents built with GPT-5.5 can plan, gather context, ...
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Anthropic confirms Claude Code problems and promises stricter quality controls

Following user complaints about declining quality in Claude Code, Anthropic identified and fixed three separate bugs affecting reasoning depth, caching, and text length restrictions. To prevent ...
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Trump science advisor says Chinese actors are copying American AI at massive scale

The US government says China is systematically copying American AI models at massive scale. According to a memo from Michael Kratsios, President Trump's science advisor, foreign actors are using tens ...
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OpenAI releases open-source model that strips personal data from text

OpenAI has published "Privacy Filter," an open-source AI model that runs locally and automatically redacts personal data from text before further processing. The ...