OpenAI introduces GPT-5.6 to challenge Claude Mythos 5

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-5.6, a new series of large language models that it says can outperform Claude Mythos 5 ...
Decrypt

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game

Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the ...

NVIDIA (NVDA) Hardware Powers Google DeepMind’s Parallel DiffusionGemma Model

This parallel architecture is specifically optimized for the NVIDIA ecosystem, including GeForce RTX GPUs, the NVIDIA RTX PRO ...

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

Opus 4.8 shows a growing tendency to reason explicitly about how its outputs will be graded, including in environments where it wasn't told it was being evaluated.
Variety

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Is a French Novelist Spying on the Apartment Across the Street in Asghar Farhadi’s Weirdly Muddled Voyeuristic Head Game

Making his second feature in France, the Iranian director meditates on fiction and reality but never draws us into his drama of trickery and deceit. As she starts the writing process, she pecks at the ...
Deadline.com

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama – Cannes Film Festival

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two ...
TechCrunch

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia. Existing investors Kleiner ...
SiliconANGLE

AWS brings OpenAI’s AI models and Codex programming assistant to its cloud

Amazon Web Services Inc. today made OpenAI Group PBC’s large language models available on its cloud platform. The algorithms are accessible through Amazon Bedrock alongside Codex, the ChatGPT ...
IEEE

The Parallel-Semantics Program Dependence Graph for Parallel Optimization

Abstract: Modern shared-memory parallel programming models, such as OpenMP and Cilk, enable developers to encode a parallel execution plan within their code. Existing compilers, including Clang and ...
Nature

A novel stacking ensemble model for predicting discharge coefficient of submerged multi parallel radial gates

Flow regulator structures hold pivotal significance in the equitable distribution of flow within irrigation systems. The efficacy of these structures stands as a linchpin determining the success of ...
NextBigFuture

AI Models Specializations and Moving to Parallel and Many Agent Systems

xAI Grok 4.20 has native 4-agent council (Grok = Coordinator/Synthesizer, Harper = Research/Facts/X-grounding, Benjamin = Logic/Math/Code, Lucas = Creative/Balance ...
The New York Times

Are Models Getting Even Skinnier?

The era of size inclusivity is seemingly over. Our critic traces the shift and hopes designers might learn from it. By Vanessa Friedman I know models have always been skinny, but it seems to me they ...