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Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover
Scientists have identified a Bronze Age pottery tradition as one of the earliest examples of branding, proving humanity’s attraction to reliable commodities…
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Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks
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Moonshot’s Kimi K3 outperforms Fable 5 in frontend code but lags far behind in complex math
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model has taken the top spot in the Code Arena Frontend…
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Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep
Research agents already handle real knowledge work today. Teams delegate competitive mapping, due diligence,…
19 Jul 2026
AI chatbots reading X-rays can be dangerously confident even when they’re wrong
AI chatbots reading X-rays can be dangerously confident even when they’re wrong The second…
19 Jul 2026
Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model that immediately moved to…
19 Jul 2026
Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation
Sakana AI has released a method that trains neural networks to 96.7% accuracy on…
18 Jul 2026
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their…
16 Jul 2026
Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
OpenAI has released a $230 mini keyboard and a $70 ChatGPT basketball alongside the…
16 Jul 2026
Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
Financial Times reports that Moonshot AI’s upcoming Kimi K3 model is expected to match…
16 Jul 2026
Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
Microsoft released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office, and other product…
15 Jul 2026

