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New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception
Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually "see," separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60 percent accuracy, and GPT-5.6 Sol leads by a narrow margin. Many supposed reasoning errors actually happen as early as the image-reading stage. The article New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception appeared first on…
Aug 15, 2026
Anthropic announces watermark detection API that will let third parties detect Claude's AI texts
Anthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The technology builds on Google's SynthID method and tweaks the randomness during word selection without affecting text quality, Anthropic says. The approach has limits with fact-heavy text, code, and heavy rewriting. The article Anthropic announces watermark detection API that…
Aug 14, 2026
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
Aug 14, 2026
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license
Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks and natively processes up to 262,000 tokens of context. With this release, Qwen is targeting developers building local and agent-based applications. The article Alibaba's Qwen team…
Aug 14, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn't even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay start by discussing the new logo, the…
Aug 14, 2026
OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. The data is stored locally as unencrypted Markdown files. OpenAI says it's not used for AI training, but memories that feed into chats may still end up as training data. The article OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a…
Aug 14, 2026
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models.…
Aug 14, 2026
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
Aug 14, 2026
Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results as "Reject." According to the study, conducted with Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute, frontier models can handle the full research engineering process but fall short on…
Aug 14, 2026
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Aug 14, 2026
Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
Aug 14, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Aug 14, 2026
GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode powered by Cerebras
OpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware from their $10 billion partnership. Together with "Standard" and "Fast," Ultrafast creates a three-tier pricing structure that turns inference speed into its own product. The article GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode…
Aug 14, 2026
Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct
Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.
Aug 14, 2026
Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Aug 14, 2026
Claude Code now runs daily maintenance on Anthropic's software with a 46 percent merge rate
Anthropic is testing whether Claude Code can handle daily maintenance of the company's own apps, from crash fuzzing to dead-code removal. In a few weeks, the AI created 388 pull requests, and 46 percent were merged after human review. Claude Code inventor Boris Cherny sees this as "early signs of life that this might be possible." The article Claude Code now runs daily maintenance on Anthropic's…
Aug 14, 2026
Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims it's the strongest open-weights coding model
Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.3, a model that, according to its own benchmarks, is the most powerful open-weights coding model, with a 50 percent improvement over its predecessor through post-training alone. Trained for cybersecurity, GLM-5.3 helped security teams find 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects. The model weights are set to go open source in two weeks. The article Zhipu AI releases…
Aug 14, 2026
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba
Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The China-focused large language model was developed in partnership with Alibaba and trained with the company's support, Reuters reports, citing three unnamed people familiar with the matter.…
Aug 14, 2026
Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026. The model reuses the 743B GLM-5.2 base unchanged. Every reported gain comes from scaled post-training: more long-horizon task environments, more environment types, longer training. Terminal-Bench 3.0 moves from 4.6 to 28.3, and DeepSWE v1.1 from 46.2 to 66.9. Cybersecurity moved further than Z.ai says it planned, with CyberGym at 84.5% and ExploitBench…
Aug 14, 2026
Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM
Cactus Compute released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The full model is a single 14MB binary that runs a session in about 28MB of RAM. It leads both Seal-Tools splits while targeting hardware with no GPU and no NPU. The post Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session…
Aug 14, 2026