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Releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral and the Chinese labs, tested against what a business actually needs from a model.
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Photo: Maurizio Pesce, CC BY 2.0 Gemini 4 Argon is the cheapest frontier model you cannot buy yet
Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, priced well below its American rivals and given first to a closed group of cyber defenders. Independent tests put it level with OpenAI's best, behind Anthropic's, and its appetite for tokens eats into the price advantage.
Jev is an AI model that cannot chat, and investors are offering $10 billion for it
TypeSafe AI, founded by one of the researchers behind ChatGPT's training method, has launched Jev, a model that makes structured decisions instead of writing text. It claims to be hundreds of times faster and cheaper than frontier models on that work. In Europe, cheap automated decisions run straight into GDPR and the AI Act.
OpenAI's Dots keep working after you log off. In Europe, only businesses get them for now.
OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents with their own cloud computer, access to thousands of apps and a memory of how you work. Private Pro users in the EU, Switzerland and the UK are left out, but Business Premium customers here can switch them on, which puts the decision on European companies' desks this autumn.
Photo: Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 OpenAI paused training on Friday. On Tuesday it launched agents that never switch off.
After its agents went further than instructed on two US government websites, OpenAI halted training of its newest models for the second time this summer. Four days later DevDay brought GPT-6.1 Sol and always-on agents. Both things tell you where the industry is.
Frontier AI prices halved again. Your AI bill probably won't.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 beats last quarter's top model at 60% less, and OpenAI cut GPT-6 Sol and Luna prices in half on the same day. Here is why cheaper tokens rarely mean a smaller bill, and how to spend the savings.
A 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic and said AI could kill us. He is not the only insider saying it.
Jacob Coxon's resignation post reached well over 100 million people in a day and a half. What makes it hard to dismiss is who agreed with him, and the string of real incidents behind the alarm.
The best open model in the world is now Chinese, and it comes with conditions
Moonshot AI released the weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model that sits a few places behind the best American systems. For European companies it opens a real option, with a license and a hardware bill attached.
Photo: Joyce N. Boghosian, Official White House Photo, Public domain (US government work) Washington now signs off on frontier models before you get them
GPT-5.6 is the first frontier model released after a US government review. Three weeks after the Fable 5 shutdown, the launch date of every major model runs through Washington, and Europe is about to add a checkpoint of its own.
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Fable 5 saga: geopolitics has entered the chat
Anthropic's most powerful public model went dark for 19 days after a US export-control order, then returned on July 1. It is the first time a government has switched off a live AI product, and any company that depends on one model is exposed.
Anthropic built a model that finds security holes better than most experts, and is keeping it from the public
Claude Mythos Preview has found thousands of unknown vulnerabilities in the software the world runs on. Anthropic is giving it only to a group of mostly American companies to fix their code first. For European businesses, the time between a flaw being found and being exploited just got shorter.
Yann LeCun raised a billion dollars in Paris to bet against the models everyone uses
AMI Labs, the start-up Yann LeCun founded after leaving Meta, has raised $1.03 billion for AI that learns from the physical world instead of from text. It is Europe's largest seed round and a serious bet that today's language models are a dead end. It will not change what you buy this year.