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Apple launches its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, starting at $2,899, with M5 Pro and M5 Max chip options and up to 16TB storage.

CodersBucket CEO shares insights from 10 products, highlighting critical product development practices for AI startups.

A Model Compare test found 9 of 14 leading AI models, including Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6.1 Terra, agree humans value belonging over truth.

Cleareye.ai launches ClearTrade, an AI-powered platform to audit SBLCs, reducing bank risks by 30% with a hybrid approach of fixed rules and LLMs.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini top Ireland's AI writing tools, with new models and updates from Mistral and Perplexity.

University of Minnesota professor Valerie Tiberius examines the nature of friendship with AI chatbots in her new book, 'Artificially Yours'.

Anthropic's Claude model created 35,000 antibody designs for a potential food-allergy treatment with Divergence Labs.

Apple's new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip delivers 24-hour battery life and 25% faster AI workloads, starting at $1,599.

Apple updates Creator Studio with OpenAI-powered AI features and adds MotionVFX to Final Cut Pro for Mac.

OpenAI's dots assistant proactively flags calendar conflicts and deadlines, but timing needs improvement, says product lead Alexander Embiricos.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra achieves 87.4% average pass rate in 20 programming languages, with COBOL migration accuracy reaching 97.9%.

OpenAI Signals reveals how ChatGPT is used for 165 work activities in nearly 100 countries, offering insights into AI's economic impact.

Greptile leverages GPT-6 Astra to automate application testing, significantly reducing QA bottlenecks for developers.

Dell expands AI Factory with NVIDIA, introduces new hardware and agentic AI solutions for enterprises.

OpenAI upgrades its medium-sized model, GPT-6.1 Terra, slashing error rates and pricing by 37% and 50% respectively.

H2O.ai's TimeH2O-v1 leads 32 models in time-series forecasting, achieving a 91.9% win rate on fev-bench's 100 tasks.

Fanatics uses OpenAI's Codex to power a new outfit-matching tool, driving a 10% increase in recommended item views for sports fans.

DeepSeek, Mistral, and Qwen release new open-source AI models, each claiming advantages in speed, sovereignty, and versatility.

AMD launches Ryzen AI Halo with 192GB unified memory for local AI, but Canadian pricing remains unannounced.

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model achieves 2.3x compute efficiency in P-Zero Research's TasteVal benchmark, accelerating AI research timelines.

Anthropic finds single agents with on-demand context often outperform multi-agent setups, releasing a migration kit to help teams switch.

Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent for professionals, competing with OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse.

ElevenLabs and Mistral release AI tools enabling real-time voice translation across multiple languages, raising questions for voice actors.

Shattered.io's 60-minute Python test lab evaluates Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral, and DeepSeek against 14 OWASP LLM01 attacks.

OpenAI's GPT-6 now powers ChatGPT, with three tiers for speed and cost, and Anthropic's Claude 5.5 offers three models for different needs.

Palo Alto Networks offers Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense and Prisma AIRS on OpenAI Marketplace for enterprise AI security.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash beats Meta's Muse Spark Open in speed and cost, according to independent benchmark tests.

Mistral expands Voxtral 3 with 35 languages, real-time voice agents, and advanced speech generation controls for developers.

GPT-6, Claude 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon, and Mistral Le Chat compared for Irish small businesses, with pricing, GDPR, and use cases analyzed.

NVIDIA introduces Minerva, an AIOps platform to optimize AI factories, at GTC Berlin, focusing on yield and productivity.

OpenAI's Decisions API, powered by GPT-6 Luna, is now generally available, offering 10x faster decision-making for applications.

Google's Gemini 4 Argon offers a limited-time discount, making it the cheapest frontier AI model for Australian developers and startups.

PerturbAI and OpenAI's AI reasoning agents analyzed a whole-brain atlas in 32 minutes, with human experts preferring their insights 75% of the time over sing...

NordLayer's AI Scout monitors employee AI tool usage, revealing 70% use unsanctioned tools, and offers data loss prevention.

Ping An Insurance debuts an AI-powered Alzheimer's management program, integrating screening to payment in 30 communities.

Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse reveals Claude Code now handles 100% of her 200-person team's coding, reshaping AI development.

OpenAI introduces Dots, a $200/month AI agent for power users, but faces stiff competition and high compute costs.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, Mistral Large 4, and Cohere Command A+ show stark pricing and feature differences in 2026.

IBM introduces llm-d 1.0, an open-source framework for large language model inference, and partners with Procore for asset data management.

Anthropic's Claude Duet AI agent can now buy business supplies for U.S. professionals using Link and Shop Pay.

Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an AI agent for professionals and small business owners, competing with Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.