DuckDuckGo saw a significant spike in US app installs after Google unveiled a sweeping AI-focused search overhaul at its I/O conference.
By Chris Borden Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 carries the same list pricing as Opus 4.6 on paper. In practice, however, it appears to consume noticeably more tokens per request. That is according to measurements published by developer Abhishek Ray on Claude Code Camp.
By Alex Rowland At the second half marathon for humanoid robots in Beijing, Chinese machines posted dramatically better times on Sunday than they did a year ago. The winning robot, developed by smartphone maker Honor, completed the 21-kilometer race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the current human half-marathon world record set by Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon the previous month. Honor, a Huawei spinout, took all three podium places, according to Reuters. Last year’s winning robot needed 2 hours and 40 minutes, more than twice as long as the human winner of the regular race.
By Daniel Mercer Adobe is responding to the growing threat from AI-native rivals with a new enterprise agent platform, even as the company searches for a new CEO.
By Chris Borden Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model. According to the company, it can compete with GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on several coding and agent benchmarks. Reported scores include 54.0 on HLE with Tools, 58.6 on SWE-Bench Pro, and 83.2 on BrowseComp. Moonshot also says K2.6 can execute more than 4,000 tool calls and run continuously for over 12 hours on long-horizon tasks in languages such as Rust, Go, and Python.
By Daniel Mercer Google has introduced two new autonomous research agents built on the Gemini 3.1 Pro model: Deep Research and Deep Research Max.
By Alex Rowland OpenAI equips its image generator, ChatGPT Images 2.0, with reasoning capabilities and web search. The generator can now create up to eight consistent images from a single prompt and handles text in non-Latin scripts much better.
By Alex Rowland Anthropic briefly removed Claude Code from the Pro subscription for new customers, then reversed the change after public criticism. In the process, Head of Growth Amol Avasare suggested that the company’s current subscription plans may no longer match how people actually use the product today.
By Chris Borden A small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic’s new AI model Mythos, according to a report by Bloomberg. Anthropic reportedly considers Mythos powerful enough to potentially enable dangerous cyberattacks, which is why the model is being made available only to a limited number of companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Cisco through the Project Glasswing program.
By Alex Rowland OpenAI has introduced GPT-Rosalind, a reasoning model specialized for the life sciences. It is designed to help researchers move faster from hypothesis to experiment, though access is currently highly restricted.
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