A 3-billion-parameter agent closes in on models ten times its size
Microsoft Research's open-source Orchard framework provides shared infrastructure for agent training. Orchard-SWE scores 69.7 percent on SWE-bench Verified.
Models
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
Models can spot a knot but lose it while untying
Microsoft Research's MindTopo benchmark measures whether multimodal models understand relations like connectivity and knottedness. They do well on static images, not on action.
Research
ChatGPT Business is getting a $125-a-month Premium seat
OpenAI is adding a new seat type to its business plan. The Premium seat costs $125 per user per month for five times the usage and no five-hour limit.
Companies
OpenAI trained a cybersecurity model to refuse less often
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.6-Cyber for approved defenders. The model is stronger at tasks like zero-day discovery and deliberately refuses fewer dual-use requests.
Safety
Microsoft's X-ray model writes the report and scores the diagnosis
Microsoft Research's CARE-X combines free-text reporting with calibrated diagnostic scores for chest X-ray interpretation. It is a research model, not a product.
Research
AI's bottleneck is not the power, it is the path the power takes
NVIDIA argues the constraint is not how many watts are consumed but how power gets from the grid to the chip. An 800-volt DC architecture removes conversion stages.
Products
Models are not failing to learn facts — they are failing to recall them
Google Research finds frontier language models encode nearly all facts but struggle to recall many of them. The error comes from access, not absence.
Research
A 45-million-parameter model that fits in a 14MB binary
Cactus Compute's open model Needle 2 is built for tool calling. It ships as a single 14MB binary and runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM.
Models
Writer's pitch: the cost saving is in the harness, not the model
Writer has launched Palmyra X6, built on the open source GLM-5.2. Its own research says harness efficiency cuts costs more reliably than choosing a different model.
Models
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially part of SpaceX. The $60 billion option was granted in April, and the acquisition moved forward after SpaceX went public.
Companies
Google's medical AI takes on real-time video consultations
Google's research medical AI system AMIE has demonstrated real-time clinical video consultation capabilities. Patient actors preferred the video experience over text chat.
Research
WhatsApp runs its new scam warning entirely on the device
WhatsApp is testing an optional feature that warns users about likely scam messages. The model runs entirely on the device, and no message content leaves it for classification.
Safety