Adwave launches Wavemaker video generator
New standalone platform built on CTV ad technology targets creators with general-purpose AI video generation.
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Ant Group releases open-source robot brain
LingBot-VLA 2.0 controls 20 distinct hardware types and beats pi0.5 across benchmarks.
Google Photos adds AI video remixer
Users can now remix Google Photos library images into stylized videos using Gemini Omni.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 family
New models promise 54% token efficiency gains on agentic coding tasks following US government approval.
DeepSeek open sources DSpark inference framework
New framework aims to speed up LLM inference by up to 85% for faster decoding.
Coinbase cuts AI spend 50% on Chinese models
Enterprise cost reduction drove default engineering to open-weight models GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of model extraction
US AI firm claims Chinese giant illicitly extracted Claude capabilities in the largest known attack of its kind.
Micron signs AI infrastructure deal with Anthropic
Agreement includes memory and storage supply plus strategic investment in the IPO-bound AI company.
Z.ai GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on coding
Open-weights model allows engineering teams to host frontier-level AI on sovereign infrastructure for 1/6th the cost.