Optima lets you benchmark models against your own data
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform letting users build custom benchmarks from their own data and workflows, comparing models on cost and time as well as quality.
Products
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
Dynatrace to acquire Arize for $915M to add AI observability
Dynatrace is acquiring Arize, which specialises in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915 million, including around $815 million in cash.
Companies
Why the view of AI in China is more optimistic than in the US
A Bloomberg analysis finds Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans, because it is seen there as a practical tool and disrupts a smaller share of the population.
Research
Nvidia halves its $250B guarantee for an OpenAI data centre
According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia has reworked the deal financing OpenAI's Ohio data centre campus and will initially guarantee only half of the planned $250 billion backstop.
Companies
Waymo approved to expand across 18 California counties
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved Waymo's robotaxi service expanding across 18 counties from Sonoma down to San Diego — its largest expansion yet.
Products
Ban a model from claiming consciousness and its view on animal rights shifts too
A study involving Google researchers shows that training chatbots not to claim consciousness also changes their stance on animal rights, religion and life satisfaction.
Research
AI is being used in the US Congress with little oversight
According to the Washington Post, members of Congress and their aides use AI tools with little oversight for everything from writing speeches to sorting constituent mail.
Policy
OpenAI's new feature turns your clicks into ChatGPT memory
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex.
Products
Amodei: open weights are not a sufficient solution on their own
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei set out his view on AI regulation, arguing open weights are not sufficient on their own and pointing to a crisis of trust in the industry.
Policy
Top-ranked DeepSeek V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks
DeepSeek's leaderboard-topping V4 Flash completed only 53.8% of complex agent tasks in testing. Thirty hard tasks were run across eight different agent harnesses.
Models
Gowers: the maths problems models have solved were solved by counterexample, not proof
Fields Medallist Timothy Gowers says almost all the famous mathematics problems solved by language models so far were solved with counterexamples rather than proofs.
Research
One in five workers hands the task to AI rather than a colleague
A representative Epoch AI survey finds 20% of employed Americans hand at least one task previously done by a person to AI, usually accepting the output with little or no editing.
Research