The latest AI news in plain words: new models, AI tools, research, cloud and policy updates, plus picks from people learning AI. Updated every day, every story linked to its source.
Cloud ·
At re:Invent, AWS announced the Nova 2 model family, Trainium3-based servers that it says deliver about four times the performance of the previous generation, and on-premises AI…
GeekWire
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.2 as its new production model and V3.2-Speciale as a high-compute variant aimed at hard reasoning problems. The release builds on DeepSeek Sparse…
DeepSeek
Models ·
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.5, reporting state-of-the-art performance on SWE-bench Verified and gains in agentic and computer-use tasks. Pricing fell to $5 per million input…
Anthropic
Policy ·
The European Commission proposed a Digital Omnibus on AI that would tie when high-risk AI rules take effect to the availability of harmonised standards and compliance tools. It…
European Parliament Legislative Train
Models ·
Google released Gemini 3 Pro, which it described as its most capable model, and shipped it on day one in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, AI Studio and Vertex AI. It also…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-weight trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 32B active parameters, trained to interleave reasoning with tool calls…
Simon Willison
Cloud ·
AWS and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic partnership worth $38 billion, giving OpenAI access to AWS infrastructure built on hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, delivered…
Amazon
Business ·
OpenAI completed its restructuring: the for-profit became OpenAI Group PBC, still controlled by the nonprofit, which was renamed the OpenAI Foundation. The foundation holds…
OpenAI
Tools ·
OpenAI released ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser for macOS built around ChatGPT, with a sidebar that can see the current page and optional browser memories. Paid users also got a…
OpenAI
Tools ·
Anthropic launched Skills, folders of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude loads only when they are relevant to the task at hand. Skills work across the Claude apps…
Anthropic
Tools ·
At DevDay, OpenAI introduced apps that run inside ChatGPT conversations, built with a new Apps SDK based on the Model Context Protocol. It also launched AgentKit, which includes…
OpenAI
Models ·
OpenAI launched Sora 2, a video generation model with synchronised dialogue and sound effects and improved physical realism compared with the original Sora. It came with an…
OpenAI
Policy ·
Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, which requires large frontier model developers to publish safety frameworks and…
Office of the Governor of California
Models ·
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, reporting state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench Verified and on computer-use benchmarks at the same price as Sonnet 4. It also renamed the…
Anthropic
Tools ·
OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 optimised for software engineering in Codex, which adjusts how long it thinks to suit task complexity and can work independently…
OpenAI
Policy ·
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle the Bartz v. Anthropic class action over books it had downloaded from pirate sites, about $3,000 for each of roughly 500,000 works…
NPR
