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ChatGPT Mil and Grok reached IL5 on GenAI.mil
Nine months in, GenAI.mil ran on one model. Google's. Since Monday it runs on three: the Department of War switched on OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government...
Read moreDetailsClaude Fable 5.1 breaks forced tool use, cuts cache 75%
Swap claude-fable-5 for claude-fable-5-1 in your config and there is a decent chance your agent starts throwing 400s before it finishes a single turn. Anthropic shipped both models on 1...
Read moreDetailsWebMCP in ChatGPT needs GPT-5.6 Sol or Terra
Somebody on your team is going to paste a WebMCP snippet off a blog post this week and then wonder why ChatGPT sees nothing. We did exactly that. OpenAI shipped...
Read moreDetailsCohere Parse 5 is $1.50 per 1,000 pages, on three of five dimensions
A finance team handed us forty thousand scanned PDFs last spring and asked for clean Markdown. We priced the job against a frontier model, then quietly closed the spreadsheet. Cohere's...
Read moreDetailsAnthropic’s Model Hardware Standard is gated, and sits under MCP
Every lab we have ever worked near keeps the same drawer of vendor software. Seven programs, seven serial protocols, nothing that talks to anything else. Anthropic opened a research preview...
Read moreDetailsA judge vacated one Pentagon label on Anthropic, and the other stands
Six months of a federal vendor ban ended on a Thursday night, in a 59-page order. Judge Rita Lin vacated the supply chain risk designation the Department of War hung...
Read moreDetailsQwen3.8-Flash-Next runs 6B active and weighs 173 GiB
Somebody on the team read "6B activated" and asked which of our boxes could run it. Fair question, wrong number: the FP8 checkpoint for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is about 173 GiB of...
Read moreDetailsTencent’s 770B Hy4 tops one benchmark row in 46
Most labs publish the launch chart and bury the table. Tencent did the opposite on 28 August, and the table is the interesting half. Hy4 preview is out under a...
Read moreDetailsMicroduck is $399, with open software and closed hardware
Four robot ducks on a black backdrop, 25 centimetres tall, in cream and graphite and lavender and sky. That launch shot is doing a lot of work. Pollen Robotics, the...
Read moreDetailsNvidia pauses its $36B AI Compute Partnership
Two months. That is how long Nvidia's neocloud financing programme ran before the Wall Street Journal reported, on 27 August, that the company had stepped back from parts of it....
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