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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Models

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• Language Models
• MiniMax

The Chinese AI company MiniMax, based in Shanghai, has released its new open-weights model M2.5 under the MIT license.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

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• AI Infrastructure
• OpenAI
• Developer tools
• GPT-5

OpenAI has released a lightweight version of its Codex programming tool.

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Chris Borden

By Chris Borden

Category: Industry

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• AI Funding
• Anthropic
• Big Tech

Anthropic has raised $30 billion in a Series G funding round, valuing the AI company at $380 billion post-money.

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Daniel Mercer

By Daniel Mercer

Category: Models

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• Gemini
• AI Benchmarks
• AI models
• Reasoning Models
• DeepMind

Google has upgraded its Gemini 3 Deep Think reasoning mode, positioning the tool as a solution for complex problems in science and engineering.

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Daniel Mercer

By Daniel Mercer

Category: Models

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• OpenAI
• ChatGPT
• AI models
• AI industry
• GPT-5

OpenAI will discontinue several older AI models in ChatGPT on February 13, 2026, including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini. The models will remain available in the API for the time being. The company officially cites declining usage as the reason for the move: only 0.1% of users reportedly select GPT-4o on a daily basis

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

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• AI Infrastructure
• OpenAI
• ChatGPT

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller coding model optimized specifically for real-time programming. It runs on Cerebras chips and delivers throughput of more than 1,000 tokens per second.

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Chris Borden

By Chris Borden

Category: Models

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• OpenAI
• AI Agents
• AI models

With GLM-5, Chinese AI company Zhipu AI has introduced an open-source model designed to compete with Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 in coding and agent-based tasks.

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Daniel Mercer

By Daniel Mercer

Category: Policy & Security

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• AI Regulation
• AI industry
• Anthropic
• Data Centers

Anthropic has pledged to offset electricity costs for consumers arising from the construction of new data centers. The company says it will fully cover grid expansion expenses, invest in new power generation capacity, and limit energy consumption at its data centers during peak demand periods. CEO Dario Amodei told NBC News that the costs of AI models should be borne by Anthropic, not by the public.

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Daniel Mercer

By Daniel Mercer

Category: Policy & Security

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• Military AI
• AI Policy
• OpenAI

The Pentagon is pressing leading AI companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI — to make their AI tools available on classified military networks without the usual usage restrictions, according to Reuters, citing multiple sources