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  1. DatabricksOfficialAI score36

    Claude Haiku 5.5 launches on Databricks as a Day 0 release

    AIAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 is available on Databricks from day zero, which Databricks calls its cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model. On Databricks' OfficeQA Pro V1 benchmark, it delivers about 15% higher quality than Haiku 4.5 at a fraction of the cost. Users can run it alongside 60+ other models on data already in Databricks, with Unity Gateway handling governance, monitoring, and security.

    Video from @databricks's post
  2. Ars Technica · AINewsAI score46

    Artcraft releases open source clones of Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and other apps built with Claude

    AIDeveloper Brandon Thomas's Artcraft has launched seven open source apps in Rust that aim to replicate the interfaces and tools of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. Thomas said he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to build the clean-room replacements, with WebAssembly versions available for browser use. The apps remain in a "super early alpha" state, and commenters have pointed out many current shortcomings.

  3. OpenAI · YouTubeOfficialAI score85

    OpenAI introduces GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI

    AIOpenAI says ChatGPT now offers Intelligent UI, which returns answers with fully interactive user interfaces. GPT-6 is rolling out in ChatGPT, powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers. The rollout begins globally today in the Chat tab for paid tiers, with Free and Go tiers following tomorrow.

    Why it matters: The source names the new interactive interface and the model tiers that receive it, showing how access differs across ChatGPT plans.

  4. ZDNet · AINewsAI score36

    Managers using AI for performance reviews draws mixed employee reactions, survey finds

    AIA Highwire survey of 1,034 corporate employees found 78% of managers used AI to help draft, edit, summarize, or inform performance reviews in the past year. Fifty-four percent of employees said feedback became more specific and actionable, while 34% found it more generic and 32% said it was less useful. Nearly one in four employees rehearse difficult workplace conversations with an AI tool, according to the survey.

  5. SemiAnalysisXAI score32

    Claude $200 plan offers far more token value than ChatGPT

    AIA $200 Claude subscription can deliver about $12,000 of Opus 5.5 tokens at API pricing, according to comments quoted in the post. The post argues that when comparing against ChatGPT's subscription, the value gap is not close.

    Video from @SemiAnalysis_'s post
  6. eric zakariassonXAI score20

    Grok Bot can search X feedback and propose plans, no connector needed

    AIThe post says users can ask the Grok bot to find all feedback about what they are building, summarize it, and propose a plan to address it, without needing an X account or connector. The background post notes that Grok Bot can now search, read, and monitor X.

  7. Visual StudioXAI score34

    Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available in Visual Studio

    AIAnthropic's lightweight Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available in Visual Studio through the Copilot Chat model picker. The model is designed for fast, high-volume work such as subagents, quick edits, and terminal tasks.

    Image from @VisualStudio's post
  8. Mark ChenOfficialAI score62

    OpenAI rolls out Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, generating custom interfaces for answers

    AIMark Chen recommends trying Intelligent UI, a ChatGPT feature where every completion can create a custom interface. He calls it useful for learning new things. The quoted OpenAI post says GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone, providing interactive answers and on-the-spot tools.

    This story has a top pick“OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 and Intelligent UI to all ChatGPT users”

  9. Noam BrownXAI score46

    LLMs now surpass top human experts on some research problems

    AINoam Brown says LLMs have crossed a threshold by surpassing top human experts on some research problems, a jump that makes the recent surge in math results feel sudden. He expects breakthroughs in other domains to follow as models keep improving, though capabilities remain jagged and often still weaker than humans.

  10. CognitionOfficialAI score26

    Cognition shares a blog post on Claude Haiku 5.5

    AICognition's X post links to a blog post at devin.ai about Claude Haiku 5.5, but the text provides no further details. The post itself offers no benchmark scores, prices, or capabilities to report.

  11. falOfficialAI score46

    fal Launches H3 Max Relight for Changing Video Lighting Without Reshoots

    AIfal introduced H3 Max Relight, a tool that changes the lighting of uploaded videos through a built-in Lighting studio where users pick colors, orbit lights around subjects, and adjust intensity and softness. It preserves the original subjects, motion, camera movement, and audio while relighting every frame, and the post says it is powered by H3 Max, which it calls the #1 model for overall quality, prompt understanding, and aesthetics.

    Video from @fal's post
  12. 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalogXAI score34

    Envato launches Burst Mode, generating up to six visual directions per credit

    AIEnvato has launched Burst Mode, which turns a single idea or reference image into up to six visual directions for one AI credit, up to 10x faster. Users can steer each batch with references, moodboards, and a creativity control ranging from focused to wild, then refine promising results with "More like this."

    Video from @testingcatalog's post
  13. The Robot ReportNewsAI score65

    Schneider Electric to acquire PTC for $22.6 billion, challenging Siemens

    AISchneider Electric will acquire industrial design and data management firm PTC Inc. for about $22.6 billion, aiming to connect product design with operations through a digital thread. Interact Analysis says the deal could narrow Schneider's portfolio gap with Siemens, but integration with AVEVA and Cognite and the 42.3% premium weighed on Schneider's shares after the announcement.

  14. Vercel DevelopersOfficialAI score34

    Vercel AI Gateway adds Browserbase search and fetch tools

    AIVercel says Browserbase Search and Fetch tools are now available on AI Gateway, letting any model with tool calling search the web and read pages. Browserbase presents the tools as a way to reliably search and extract page contents through an existing Vercel plan.

  15. Perplexity DevelopersOfficialAI score40

    Perplexity's pplx-decider-v1.1-27b now available on OpenRouter

    AIPerplexity's open-weights multimodal decision model, pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, is now available on OpenRouter. It accepts text, JSON, or images and returns typed answers with probabilities, priced at $0.02 per million input tokens with free output.

  16. Jerry LiuXAI score22

    Claude Haiku 5.5 offered on OpenDocRouter for low-cost document parsing

    AIClaude Haiku 5.5 is now available on OpenDocRouter, priced at roughly $1.2 per 1k pages. The post says it performs well on tables and text reading order at that price point, but struggles with charts, semantic formatting, and bounding boxes.

    Image from @jerryjliu0's post
  17. Leandro von WerraXAI score36

    Snorkel expands Open Benchmarks Grants to $30M for AI evaluation

    AISnorkel AI is expanding its Open Benchmarks Grants tenfold to a $30M commitment to fund more diverse, robust, and continuously updated open AI benchmarks. The program adds an Open Benchmarks Red Team to test and strengthen those benchmarks, plus a Snorkel Research Fellowship for independent researchers developing new evaluation methods. The source says OBG-funded benchmarks have appeared on model cards from every major frontier lab.

  18. LangChainOfficialAI score3

    LangChain ranks #12 on Paraform's Talent Density Index

    AILangChain has ranked #12 on Paraform's Talent Density Index, a recognition the company says reflects its growing team of builders making an outsized impact in the industry. LangChain is also hiring, with open roles listed on its careers page.

    Image from @LangChain's post
  19. 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalogXAI score34

    Microsoft brings hybrid local-cloud intelligence to Copilot for Windows

    AIMicrosoft is adding hybrid intelligence to Copilot for Windows, letting it use local PC context and local models for tasks. Per Satya Nadella's quoted post, Windows will route each task to local or cloud models, and Copilot will act on the user's behalf only with permission.

    Video from @testingcatalog's post
  20. TechRadar · AINewsAI score42

    Trump creates Super Intelligence Force and renames AI to "SI" in federal communications

    AIPresident Trump announced a White House-led "Super Intelligence Force" that will spend 120 days examining AI risks and federal responses, and signed an executive order directing agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI." The order asks officials to develop a possible new federal definition within 60 days, but the source says the change is linguistic rather than architectural. Critics quoted in the article argue that renaming does not change the technology itself.

  21. Ethan MollickXAI score58

    Ethan Mollick Tries Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, Finds It Beats Text Walls

    AIEthan Mollick had early access to Intelligent UI and found it a welcome change from long blocks of text. He suggests interfaces will increasingly be built on demand for each user's problem. The quoted OpenAI post says GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone, delivering fast, interactive answers with visual explanations and task tools.

  22. OpenRouterOfficialAI score46

    Perplexity Decider v1.1 arrives on OpenRouter with free output

    AIPerplexity's open-weights multimodal decision model, Decider v1.1, is now available on OpenRouter. It accepts text, JSON, or images and returns typed answers with probabilities, priced at $0.02 per million input tokens with free output. Perplexity says it scores highest on Hugging Face's new Decision Index 0.3 benchmark and costs half as much as v1.

  23. Simon WillisonBlogAI score62

    Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, priced like GPT-6 Luna up to 100,000 tokens

    AIAnthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, priced at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens up to 100,000 tokens, matching GPT-6 Luna. Beyond 100,000 tokens the price rises to $0.50 and $2.50, and the author found the new tokenizer uses about 1.25x as many tokens as Haiku 4.5 on the same long prompt. The model cannot disable reasoning and defaults to medium effort.

  24. elvisXAI score22

    Envato launches Burst Mode for AI image direction exploration

    AIEnvato has launched Burst Mode, which starts from a rough idea or reference image and generates up to six image directions side by side. Users can steer those directions with moodboards and a creativity control ranging from focused to wild. Envato says it can produce up to six directions at once, up to 10× faster, for one AI credit.

  25. vLLMOfficialAI score22

    vLLM and NVIDIA cut TTFT nearly 70% at ~100K throughput

    AITogether with DeepSeek's model and kernels and NVIDIA's collaboration, vLLM reports that time to first token (TTFT) drops nearly 70% at roughly 100K throughput. The post credits Inferact and the vLLM community for the work and thanks SemiAnalysis for AgentX.