LLM & Chatbots

A phone agent startup says Mercury cut its worst-case response from minutes to one second. Inception Labs' new diffusion model is built around that kind of number.

Anthropic published the mechanics of Claude's 18+ enforcement, including classifier-driven suspensions and a Yoti appeal route for wrongly flagged adults.

Google's native Gemini app for Windows opens over any application with Alt+Space, connects to Gmail and Drive, and is available globally on Windows 10 and 11.

OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.5 with up to 50% lower latency, a Sketch drawing canvas, templates, pinned comments and two new API models.

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that books travel, pays bills and shops on your behalf across iOS, Android, the web and WhatsApp in the US.

OpenAI launched a Data agent for ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT for Financial Services, built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore, on the same Thursday.

Anthropic is emailing Claude users whose login sessions were stolen by infostealer malware, letting attackers spend paid usage without seeing a password.

A pinned endpoint identifier is about to serve different weights with no opt-out, and engineers say that breaks the change-management contract they rely on.

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra to business customers, framing its newest frontier model less as a chatbot and more as a worker that operates software...

Z.ai confirmed the stealth Ox Alpha model is GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B parameters, 18B active, MIT-licensed weights and sub-dollar output pricing.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds 40-second scene extension, first and last frame control, video references and 4K upscaling, plus 360p drafts at a third the cost.

IBM's Granite 4.2 ships 3B, 8B and 30B dense reasoning models under Apache 2.0 with a 512K context window and an agentic RL stage for the larger two.