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Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity. Per prompt, that's roughly 600 times more than a typical AI chat. His data shows how much…
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2. New editing tools like Magic Wand and Multi-Ref Editing, along with preconfigured templates, target practical…
Internal tests of OpenAI's new AI model Astra show cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the company can no longer rule out the highest risk level in its own safety framework. Parts of Astra's development have been paused. The move follows…
Suno CEO Mikey Shulman has announced new guidelines and tighter download limits after its AI-generated music was used to game streaming platforms for profit. The company also faces pressure from a German copyright ruling and an admission by one of…
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips. That makes them extremely fast but locks each chip to a single model. A demo chip hit over 16,000 tokens per second per user running Llama…
Anthropic has cut false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by about 85 percent. Previously, nearly all biology-related queries got blocked and rerouted to the less capable Opus 5. The restrictions stay in place for sensitive dual-use…
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It's designed to learn from conversations and adapt to users, fitting Sam Altman's "Her" vision. The article OpenAI's…
