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ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers

More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.

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Models & releasesOfficial source

BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model

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Models & releasesIndependent journalism

llm-gemini 0.36

Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else . This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and $10/million output at launch (that's GPT-6.1 Sol / Claude Sonnet 5.5 prices) but scheduled to double in price to...

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Tools & productivityIndependent journalism

The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it

As espionage targets go, Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the least surprising on Earth. The Nvidia CEO runs one of the world's most valuable companies, controls the in-demand technology fueling the AI boom, and is cozy with presidents, CEOs, and all manner of important people.

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Tools & productivityIndependent journalism

The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk

Some Independent Games Festival (IGF) jurors published a statement yesterday saying they would not vote for games that use generative AI in "any capacity." Soon after, the developer of indie hit Big Walk has published a statement saying it "sparingly" used AI in the "final stretch" of the game's development to "help work...

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Models & releasesOfficial source

Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices

A man speaks into a phone. Text on the screen reads 'Gemini Intelligence'

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Tools & productivityIndependent journalism

Anthropic targets $1.4 trillion IPO

Anthropic confirmed on Tuesday that its IPO could be one of the biggest ever, even while falling short of previous expectations. Its IPO price is expected to be between $70.00 and $78.00 per share, which would put its valuation as high as $1.4 trillion, according to the The New York Times.

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Tools & productivityOfficial source

We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.

Google and Adobe are integrating creative and productivity tools. Edit PDFs in Drive and use Adobe AI in Gemini.

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Models & releasesOfficial source

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare.

Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and automate workflows. Reduce administrative burnout.

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ResearchOfficial source

Closing the AI guidance gap in education

New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning.

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Models & releasesIndependent journalism

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model designed for complex reasoning execution and the work agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing,...

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Models & releasesIndependent journalism

Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2

Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what the prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, when a prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the code base as someone else’s, the model tended to add to the existing structure, even when that repeated existing code.

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ResearchIndependent journalism

Keep calm and call clone with Rust

Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory safety without garbage collection overhead, why Rust consistently ranks as developers' most loved language by providing psychological safety for complex systems, and how...

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