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llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem

Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful

Let’s get to work. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that…

What we know so far about the Microsoft outage

A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.

AI is destroying the trust between writers and readers

Claude Is Down

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com

Shield helps technicians hand off legacy portal work with OpenAI

Shield uses OpenAI to help IT technicians hand off work in legacy portals. Its Forge agents navigate systems so technicians can focus on issues needing their judgment.

What happened overnight with the Microsoft global outage?

Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".

Have we finally found a valid use case for AI? Meet Pino the autonomous virtual kiwi | First Dog on the Moon

Pino noodles about making his own AI decisions. He has decided independently that he is into trains and cats. Aren’t we all Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog…

Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer

llm-gemini 0.37

Release: llm-gemini 0.37 Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen today - the lowest cost member of the Gemini 4 family. It's actually not too far off the price of its much bigger siblings, Carbon and Argon. I'm finding Gemini 4's pricing really confusing. Here's the pricing scheme…

Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay

Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.

Google’s new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions

Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The new model can break down your questions and address each part in its responses.…

Foundation Models framework

How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI

Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.

No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site

“I woke up and checked the agents' reports. 'DAMN!' They had found lots of villages and other regular shapes that looked like structures or houses,“ Pietro Miotti wrote on his blog. | Image: Pietro Miotti Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed…

Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions

Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.

Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash

Google is continuing its elemental AI naming scheme with the new Gemini 4 Hydrogen. These names are less descriptive than the Pro/Flash monikers of earlier releases, but Hydrogen's purpose is clear: It replaces the faster, more economical Flash models most people in Google's…

Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands

Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.

LLMON: An LLM-Native Markup Language, now in Granite 4.1 3B and 8B

Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash

CHICAGO—Families joined protests in seven cities nationwide on Wednesday, rallying against what they see as Google’s bid to entrench its AI models in schools, turn kids of all ages into Gemini guinea pigs, and hook them on AI. The backlash follows a Google statement last week…

Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator

Google DeepMind Staff Tap the UK Government to Escalate Their Unionization Fight

After initial talks stalled, workers at Google DeepMind are trying to bypass company management in their bid to unionize.

Gemini 4 Hydrogen