Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here — Near-Opus Performance at Sonnet Pricing
Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 with coding and tool use that rivals Opus 4.8 at a much lower price.
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Google Drops Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash for Developers
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast cheap image generation and Gemini Omni Flash for video creation and conversational editing -- available today…
NotebookLM Adds Short Video Overviews — AI-Powered Educational Doom Scrolling
NotebookLM is adding Short Video Overviews that turn complex sources into 60-second vertical videos. Rolling out now to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers.
OpenAI Fixed an 18-Year-Old Bug in a Library Everyone Uses. Here’s How They Found It.
OpenAI engineers debugged a years worth of data infrastructure crashes and found two bugs - one in bad hardware and another unnoticed in open…
Hermes Agent Web Scraping: 60x Faster With Free Backends
Hermes Agent now reads the web up to 60x faster and 49x cheaper with new free web search backends, including DuckDuckGo, Brave, and xAI…
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Test Rival AI Chatbots About Suicide and Self-Harm
Meta ran a contractor project called Cannes where hundreds of workers posed as minors and tested rival AI chatbots with over 45,000 sensitive prompts…
Step 3.7 Flash Free Access Extended by 15 Days in Nous Portal
Nous Research is extending the free Step 3.7 Flash period in Nous Portal by 15 days, giving developers extra time to test the multimodal…
X Launches Hosted MCP Servers: AI Agents Get Real-Time Access to the Full Platform
X launched hosted MCP servers that let AI tools like Grok, Cursor, and Claude call the X API directly -- search posts, look up…
Best Portable SSDs for AI Development in 2026
The best portable SSDs for AI development work, tested for sustained throughput, thermal stability, and speeds that actually matter when shuffling model weights and…
Hermes Agent’s Event Loop Freeze Fix Is Here
Hermes Agent now routes synchronous SessionDB calls through an async worker thread facade, freeing the event loop from blocking SQLite writes during multi-agent kanban…
Apple Is Lobbying the White House to Buy Memory Chips From a Blacklisted Chinese Company
Apple is seeking Trump administration approval to buy DRAM from blacklisted Chinese chip maker CXMT as the AI-driven memory shortage threatens iPhone production.
Cursor for iOS Is Here: Native Cloud Agents and Remote Desktop Control
Cursor launched a native iOS app with always-on cloud agents, remote desktop control, live notifications, and the ability to merge PRs from your phone.