Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 With Lower Costs and Stronger Safeguards
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5, its latest Opus model, with improvements aimed at coding, professional work, AI agents and other complex tasks. The company says the new model performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work while requiring fewer…
Apple’s New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Bring AI Computing to the Desktop
Apple has begun selling its latest Mac mini and Mac Studio computers, putting greater emphasis on artificial intelligence workloads that can be processed directly on desktop hardware. The new range includes the Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips and the…
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Takes Top Open-Weight AI Spot With Score of 46
Xiaomi has launched its latest MiMo V2.6 AI model family, introducing new open-weight systems designed for advanced reasoning, multimodal tasks and AI agent workloads. The flagship MiMo-V2.6-Pro achieved a score of 46.32 on the Artificial Analysis…
xAI Releases Grok 4.7 With Focus on Coding and Long-Running Tasks
xAI has released Grok 4.7, its latest artificial intelligence model aimed at coding, agent-based tasks and professional knowledge work. The model became available on September 21, 2026, following a delayed rollout that had originally been expected…
Apple Siri AI Faces Early User Concerns After iOS 27 Rollout
Apple’s new Siri AI has begun rolling out with iOS 27, bringing a redesigned experience to its voice assistant. The update adds capabilities such as personal context, onscreen awareness, broader knowledge and actions across supported apps. While…
Claude AI Leads 26% of Anthropic’s AI Research Work
Anthropic says its Claude AI models now lead about 26% of the company’s measured artificial intelligence research and development work focused on building future AI models, up from around 1% in March. The disclosure provides a rare look at how an…
Tesla Optimus Production Audits Expand in China
Tesla has reportedly begun a new round of supplier audits in Ningbo, China, as the company continues developing the manufacturing network for its Tesla Optimus humanoid robot. Chinese industry reports said a Tesla robotics team arrived in Ningbo on…
SpaceX Discusses Buying Startup Data to Train Grok AI
SpaceX has held informal internal discussions about potentially purchasing customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups to provide additional data for its artificial intelligence models, according to Bloomberg. The discussions…
Mastercard and Visa Build Payment Tools for AI Shopping Agents
Mastercard and Visa are developing payment technologies for AI shopping agents as artificial intelligence moves toward handling more parts of the online purchasing process. Mastercard has expanded its agentic-commerce efforts through a partnership with…
Claude Cowork Merges Into Claude With New Docs and Slides Tools
Anthropic is merging Claude Cowork with its standard Claude chat experience, allowing users to move between quick questions and more complex, multi-step tasks without selecting a separate mode. At the same time, Anthropic is launching Claude Docs and…