Mistral's new OCR model beats competitors in 72 percent of blind test cases, company says

Mistral AI has released OCR 4, a new model that reads text from documents like PDFs, Word files, and PowerPoint presentations.<br /> The article Mistral's new OCR model beats competitors in [...]

Don't buy a new iPad just yet — two new models are set to launch soon with future-proofing upgrades

The iPad (2026) and iPad Air (2026) are both apparently coming soon, complete with new chipsets for both and an AI upgrade for one of them. [...]

New benchmark shows AI models still hallucinate far too often

A new benchmark from researchers in Switzerland and Germany shows that even top models like Claude Opus 4.5 with web search enabled still produce incorrect information in nearly a third of all cases.& [...]

Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing'

Meta went to court this week in two major trials over alleged harms facilitated by its platform. In New Mexico, the state's attorney general has accused the company of facilitating child exploita [...]

Google's new tool helps you remove non-consensual explicit images from Search

The internet is ripe with horrible violations of people's privacy, including non-consensual explicit images. A new tool from Google won't do much in the way of prevention, but can help you r [...]

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad, destroying its only pad and threatening Amazon’s satellite deadline

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, sending a fireball into the sky and destroying the vehicle along with criti [...]

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork finally lands on Windows — and it wants to automate your workday

Anthropic released its Claude Cowork AI agent software for Windows on Monday, bringing the file management and task automation tool to roughly 70 percent of the desktop computing market and intensifyi [...]

z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique

Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5.The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an [...]

Anthropic promises to cover consumer electricity costs from new data center construction

The company plans to fully absorb grid upgrade costs, invest in new power generation, and cap its data centers' energy consumption during peak hours.<br /> The article Anthropic promises to [...]