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Illustrated scientist at chalkboard with numbers 59, 16, and 43 beside a rising curve, representing HLE benchmark scores

anthropic's hle lead hits 16 points – and it's still accelerating

Addy Crezee 9 Jun 2026 1 min read

Weathered robot with 13.4% chest display stamps OK on code diff sheets near a red merge button in a graffiti-covered room

frontiercode: first bench to test if ai code is actually mergeable

Addy Crezee 9 Jun 2026 2 min read

Two hands reach toward a glowing doorway surrounded by floating PR merge confirmations and restaurant receipts

two open agent models in one day: one codes, one lives

Nick Trenkler 9 Jun 2026 4 min read

Man in patched suit labeled Anthropic and Nous Research faces polished mirror reflection with a $30B price tag

moonshot ai is remixing anthropic and nous research to chase a $30b valuation

Nick Trenkler 8 Jun 2026 1 min read

Illustrated tattooed hand holding a glowing QAT chip under a spotlight in a graffiti-covered server room

gemma 4 e2b qat: google squeezes an ai model to 0.84 gb

Nick Trenkler 7 Jun 2026 1 min read

Illustrated man holding a glowing JSON panel as glitchy image fragments swirl around him in an industrial setting

liquid ai just dropped a tiny model that reads images and pulls out exactly the data you need

Nick Trenkler 5 Jun 2026 2 min read

Man in DeepMind lab coat opening a vault labeled AlphaFold, PubMed, UniProt with binary code streaming out in neon light

deepmind open-sources science skills: ai agents meet 30+ databases

Addy Crezee 4 Jun 2026 1 min read

Illustration of a man in a tuxedo sniffing two glasses labeled M3 and K2.6 while suited figures watch in a neon-lit room

minimax m3 vs kimi k2.6: when a 1-point gap is the whole story

Addy Crezee 4 Jun 2026 1 min read

Surgeon cracking open a chip labeled LLM Backbone with Vision and Audio modules wired in, monitor showing 12B

google launches gemma 4 12b – nearly matches the 26b model on benchmarks, sometimes beats it, at less than half the memory footprint

Addy Crezee 3 Jun 2026 1 min read

Man in gray suit presents llama figurine under glass dome labeled NEW to skeptical exec in dark graffiti-tagged boardroom

meta's chief ai officer alexandr wang is closing out his first year – and it's not going well

Addy Crezee 3 Jun 2026 1 min read

Gloved hand with pin popping SpaceX and Anthropic balloons against graffiti wall with dystopian messages

inside the tech debate over burry saying neither anthropic nor spacex is worth $1t

Nick Trenkler 3 Jun 2026 3 min read

Comic-style officer stamps envelopes under dim light, wall reads 7 Down 9 To Go — AI lab release tracker for May 2026

7 of 16 top ai labs shipped a model in may 2026

Nick Trenkler 3 Jun 2026 1 min read

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