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Thinking Machines Lab Ships First Model With 200ms Real-Time Interaction

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released a research preview of its first in-house model on May 11, 2026, ending more than a year of silence on what the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This High Schooler Developed an A.I. Tool to Diagnose Autism and ADHD Using the Retina

Edward Kang’s RetinaMind analyzes patients’ retinal images and accurately diagnoses neurodevelopmental disorders 89 percent ...
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Stop Losing Pennies in Your Data by Mastering Decimal Precision in Pandas

If you're tracking a multi-destination trip budget or analyzing fintech data, the standard `DataFrame.round()` method in ...
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 ...
CNBC

Anthropic limits Mythos AI rollout over fears hackers could use model for cyberattacks

Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, which it said is an advanced AI model that excels at identifying weaknesses and security flaws within software. Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, CrowdStrike, Palo ...
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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio Copilot: BYO Model + MCP GA

Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.
Wired

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still in the hot seat this week after his company signed a deal with the US military. OpenAI employees have criticized the move, which came after Anthropic’s roughly $200 ...
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, ...
CNET

Anthropic Says Its Newest AI Model Is Getting Pretty Good at Using a Computer

Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities category, with a focus on energy-saving advice, thermostats, and heating and cooling. Jon has more than a decade ...
Harvard Business Review

When Every Company Can Use the Same AI Models, Context Becomes a Competitive Advantage

At a glance, the two large B2B companies were almost identical. Both sell complex, multi-year technology services; they compete for many of the same enterprise customers. Sales stages, forecasting ...
InfoWorld

Gemini Flash model gets visual reasoning capability

Agentic Vision combines visual reasoning with code execution to ground answers in visual evidence, delivering a 5% to 10% quality boost across most vision benchmarks, Google said. Google has added an ...