Education Week

Fractions Scuttle Many Students’ Math Ambitions. New Models Can Clear the Way

Many students in elementary grades struggle to grasp the perennially vexing concept of fractions. If those struggles persist into middle school, it can undermine their ability to master more complex ...
CNN

China’s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?

China’s DeepSeek unveiled a preview version of its much-anticipated new model on Friday, promising to rival models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google a year after the then little-known start up took ...
Neowin

Google releases its most powerful open-source AI models yet, that's free to use commercially

Google has announced Gemma 4, a new family of open models built on the same underlying research as its proprietary Gemini 3. Unlike Gemini, though, the Gemma family of models is fully open source, and ...
Engadget

Microsoft's research assistant can now use multiple AI models simultaneously

Microsoft's Copilot is getting even better at research thanks to a new feature that combines the power of both OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. In a blog post announcing Copilot Cowork's ...
VentureBeat

Mistral's Small 4 consolidates reasoning, vision and coding into one model — at a fraction of the inference cost

Enterprises that have been juggling separate models for reasoning, multimodal tasks, and agentic coding may be able to simplify their stack: Mistral’s new Small 4 brings all three into a single ...
Us Weekly

Netflix and E! Both Release Documentary Specials About ‘America’s Next Top Model’: How They Compare

The legacy — and controversy — surrounding America’s Next Top Model is at the center of Netflix and E!’s documentaries, but how do the specials compare? America’s Next Top Model, which ran from 2003 ...
Wired

What AI Models for War Actually Look Like

Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building advanced AI specifically for military applications. Smack Technologies, ...
InfoQ

Windsurf Introduces Arena Mode to Compare AI Models During Development

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Mashable

DeepSeek v3.2: What's new and how does it compare to ChatGPT?

Remember DeepSeek, the large language model (LLM) out of China that was released for free earlier this year and upended the AI industry? Without the funding and infrastructure of leaders in the space ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft debuts Fara-7B, a small ‘computer-use’ model that runs natively on PCs

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...
CNBC

OpenAI introduces safety models that other sites can use to classify harms

OpenAI announced two so-called open-weight reasoning models. Developers can use the models to classify a range of online safety harms based on their specific policy needs. OpenAI developed the models ...