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Kimi K3: a Chinese lab gave away its best AI model. Here's what that means
The largest free-to-download AI model ever released beats some paid Western models at certain jobs. It also needs a data centre to run.
Why US companies are quietly switching to Chinese AI models
Coinbase, DoorDash and Airbnb are routing everyday AI tasks to cheaper open-weight models from China, and one company says its bill nearly halved.
What ChatGPT Health means for you
OpenAI has opened its health tool to every US adult on every plan, and health data now follows you into any chat.
What Claude Opus 5 means for you
Anthropic's newest model matches much of its top-tier performance at half the price, with stronger safety checks built in.
What Google's huge AI numbers mean for you
Alphabet's latest earnings show Gemini and Search AI are now used by roughly a billion people a month each.
AMD is investing $5bn in Anthropic: what the deal actually is
A chip company is buying a stake in an AI lab, and selling it billions in hardware at the same time. Here's how that works and why both sides want it.
What Google's "Frozen v2" AI chip means for you
Google is reportedly building parts of Gemini's design directly into a new chip to make answers cheaper and faster to produce, though it's years away.
What Anthropic's $1.5bn book settlement means for you
A US judge has approved the largest copyright settlement in history over books Anthropic used to train Claude.
What Microsoft's Project Perception means for you
Microsoft is building an AI cybersecurity tool that shares work across several AI models to hunt down software flaws more cheaply than rivals.
Apple briefly passed Nvidia as world's most valuable company
A fast swing in AI-related stock sentiment let Apple overtake Nvidia for part of a trading day before Nvidia reclaimed the top spot by the close.
China launches new global AI body without the West
The new World AI Cooperation Organization has 29 founding members but no major Western democracy among them.
What Thinking Machines Lab's new open model Inkling means for you
Mira Murati's start-up has released a huge open-weights AI model built for other companies to customise, not to top the leaderboards.
New York pauses big data centre permits: what it means for you
Governor Kathy Hochul has frozen state permits for large AI data centres for about a year while officials study their strain on power and water.
Meta Now Charges for Its AI: What Muse Spark 1.1 Means for You
Meta just released a new coding model called Muse Spark 1.1 and, for the first time, started charging developers to use it. Here is what that actually means in plain English.
Why an AI Company Just Hired a Former Fed Chair to Watch Over It
Anthropic put Ben Bernanke on the small group that can one day outvote its own shareholders. Here is who he is, what that group does, and why the timing matters.
Ant's Robot Brain Can Hold a Chip Without Crushing It
Ant Group says its new LingBot-VA 2.0 is a robot 'brain' that does things instead of just describing them. Here is what that actually means, what the potato-chip demo shows, and how far it is from a robot in your kitchen.
Where the AI Money Is Really Going (And Why It's Not ChatGPT)
In one week of July 2026, investors poured billions into startups that build on top of AI models — legal helpers, agent platforms, and robot-training data. Here is what they actually do, in plain English.
Why Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Late, and What It Actually Means for You
Google didn't just tweak its last model, it reportedly threw it out and started over. Here's what the delay, the giant memory, and the $250 tier mean in plain English, plus why 'no government restrictions' isn't the win it sounds like.
GPT-5.6 is here: which ChatGPT model do you actually get now?
OpenAI just switched paid ChatGPT to a new default called Terra. Here's what changed, what stayed the same, and why the launch was held back for almost two weeks.
Anthropic Now Out-Earns OpenAI: What It Means for You
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has pulled ahead of OpenAI on revenue. Here is what that actually means in plain English, and why it matters if you use Claude or ChatGPT.
White House AI release standards: what they mean for you
The US government wants to test powerful AI models before they launch. Here's what that means, in plain English, and why 'voluntary' still has teeth.
What is Claude Science? Anthropic's new AI tool for scientists, explained
Anthropic just built one place where researchers can do their whole job — reading papers, crunching data, running experiments. Here's what it does and why it matters, in plain English.
Meta's AI layoffs, explained: why it says the 8,000 cuts haven't paid off
Meta reshaped itself around AI and let thousands of people go. Now it says the plan is running late. Here's what happened and what it means, in plain English.
OpenAI's 5% US government stake idea: what it means for you
OpenAI reportedly offered the government a slice of the company so the public could share in AI's profits. Here's what that actually means, in plain English.