Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch.Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused prim [...]

OpenAI’s new o3 and o4-mini models reason with images and tools

OpenAI is expanding its o-series with two new language models featuring improved tool usage and strong performance on complex tasks. The models aim for agent-like problem-solving capabilities.<br / [...]

Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens

Anthropic has found that Claude developed an internal working memory on its own during training. The company calls it "J-Space" and can now read it using a new analysis tool called J-Lens. T [...]

Nothing's Phone 4a Pro picks up flagship features and an even brighter display for $499

Back in January, Nothing shared that it wouldn't be releasing its flagship Nothing Phone 4 in 2026, and instead focusing on follow-ups to its midrange Phone 3a and Phone 3a Pro. After some expect [...]

Own a Fire TV device? You're getting a free update soon, with refreshed layout and new streaming channels — and Amazon's also launching a slimmer Fire TV Stick

Amazon is refreshing its Fire TV interface for 2026 with new organisation and new streaming channels. Plus, it's bringing out a new, slimmer Fire TV HD Stick. [...]

The next Assassin's Creed game loses its creative director

Ubisoft's shakeups continue unabated. The creative director of the next Assassin's Creed game, codenamed Hexe, has left the company. The departure of Clint Hocking, a 20-year veteran of the [...]

Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board

For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflo [...]

Apple's claims about large reasoning models face fresh scrutiny from a new study

A replication study of Apple's controversial "The Illusion of Thinking" paper confirms some of its main criticisms, but challenges the study's central conclusion.<br /> The a [...]

OpenAI's new voice model brings GPT-5-level reasoning to real-time conversations

OpenAI is shipping three new voice models—GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper—that can reason in real time, translate across 70+ languages, and transcribe live speech. [...]