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Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, across every GLM Coding Plan tier. The headline is a usable 1-million-token context window plus High and Max effort levels. It drops into Claude Code, Cline, and OpenClaw through an Anthropic-compatible endpoint.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the US export ban blocking all foreign access to Anthropic PBC’s latest artificial intelligence models underscores the risk of depending on just a handful of powerful AI tools.

AI cryptomining network's 320,000 RTX 3090-class GPUs allegedly burn 112 megawatts of power on ‘zero useful AI computation’. GPU rental costs jump 38%, but Pearl’s cards are doing random matrix math, study claims Tom's Hardware

iPhone owners are getting real, native AI photo editing for the first time. The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don't think any of us are ready.

Government announces plans to invest billions, but questions linger over how its proposals on chips, social media and more will work Ownership of the commanding heights of the AI economy is a political talking point around the world, as countries seek to assert some control of a technology…

Anthropic suspends all access to Mythos model after US government bans foreign nationals use CNN

Moonshot AI has open-sourced Kimi K2.7-Code under a Modified MIT license. It is a coding-focused, agentic model built on Kimi K2.6, with a 256K context window and roughly 30% lower reasoning-token usage. Moonshot reports gains over K2.6 on six benchmarks, including +21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2.

We build an end-to-end spatial graph learning pipeline using city2graph. We collect urban POI and street network data from OpenStreetMap, with a synthetic fallback for reliability.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup will work toward developing an "artificial general engineer," according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup, called Prometheus, aims to develop AI-powered engineering tools to aid in the design of physical products.

A startup founded by a former banker has launched one of India’s first homegrown video AI platforms, wading into an arena dominated by US and Chinese services.

SpaceX IPO extends Elon Musk’s influence across AI and the economy The Washington Post

shutdown followed a US government export control directive citing national security authorities. All other Anthropic models, including Opus 4.8, remain available. The post Anthropic Disables Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 After US Government Order appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Mistral AI plans a data center near Paris with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs and 44 MW capacity.

Tokenminimizing: Meta Moves to Curb Employee AI Usage as AI Costs Reach Billions The Information

China bets $295 billion on AI backbone as US data center boom accelerates

Opinion | Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI’s demand on the electricity grid The Washington Post

The Hermes Agent dashboard now builds complete agent profiles in one flow, replacing multi-step CLI setup for users. The post Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Anthropic has apologized for stealthily throttling its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, with hidden guardrails that undermine both researchers and rivals using it to develop competing systems.

OpenAI has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting U.S. debates over tariffs and AI data centers, the company said Wednesday.

Frontier AI labs are converging on a new strategy for controlling their most cyber-capable models while still commercializing them: selective access. Why it matters: OpenAI's trusted-access program and a pending program from Anthropic are creating a new power center in cybersecurity where AI…

The ChatGPT maker announced it has filed paperwork to go public, just a week after rival Anthropic took the same step.

Two years after first revealing its plans for Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri that never fully materialized, at WWDC Apple just revealed a new set of AI features and a smarter, more personalized Siri.

Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short. I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an episode.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far Much is new about this month’s FIFA World Cup tournament. It hosts more teams than ever before. It’s the first…