LLMs

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model, into public preview, the company announced Aug. 26. It is already running in two consumer products: the Gemini app on macOS, in…

Z.ai has published GLM-5.3-Flash and released the model's weights for download under an MIT license, the permissive terms that allow commercial use and modification. The model repository on Hugging…

Put a price on asking for help and people ask for less of it. That part of a new experiment out of the University of California, Irvine behaved exactly as you would expect. The interesting part came…

The pitch for AI agent teams is intuitive, which is part of why it sells so well. If one language model can draft an answer, surely two can catch each other's mistakes, and a whole committee of them…

Guidelight AI Standards published an assessment Aug. 18, scoring five companies that build frontier AI models on six practices for keeping control of those models, and awarded none of them more than…

More than a third of English-language web pages published since ChatGPT's release show signs of AI authorship, according to an analysis the Pew Research Center published Aug. 20 that ran a detection…

Ask a chatbot for a proof and you brace for a confident, wrong answer. So there is a certain irony in what a team of four researchers reported this week: they asked a language model to help with a…

The microphone button keeps moving closer to the middle of the screen. Assistants now open in voice mode, cars and headphones take dictation, and the implicit promise is that speaking a question and…

Imagine two people on the phone, each holding a photograph. Neither can see the other's. Their job is to decide whether the two pictures are the same and, if not, to find the difference. This is a…