DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up whose low-cost model stunned the world last year, launched a preview of its highly anticipated new model, the V4, on Friday. The pro version of V4 outperforms other open-source models in world-knowledge benchmarks, trailing only Google’s Gemini Pro 3.1 which is a closed-source model, DeepSeek said. The V4 also comes…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a media tour of a Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, Sept. 23, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5, which the company says is better at coding, using computers and pursuing deeper research capabilities. The launch comes less…
The emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos is setting up a scramble from the banking industry to gain access and test the technology as regulators rush to examine the cybersecurity risks the new AI model raises and how prepared financial firms are to tackle them. Mythos is viewed by cybersecurity experts as posing significant challenges to the…
SENIOR BUREAU OFFICIAL CHECKER: Good morning, it’s really a pleasure to be here with all of you. Thank you so much to CSIS for the invitation–and for convening this conversation at such a consequential moment. My objective here is really just to clearly and unambiguously talk about the Trump administration’s very new and different approach…
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company said is an improvement over past models but is “less broadly capable”…
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent and US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with bank CEOs this week to warn of cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, two sources familiar with the matter have said. Anthropic launched the powerful Mythos model earlier this week but stopped short of a broad…
Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang nine months ago, as the Facebook parent aims to carve out a niche in a market that’s being dominated by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Dubbed Muse Spark and originally codenamed Avocado, the AI model announced Wednesday is…
The AI assistant remembers facts about users for personalised communication and solutions. Sber has introduced a major update to its AI assistant GigaChat, which is now powered by the new flagship model GigaChat Ultra. This updated version allows the AI assistant to remember facts about users for personalised communication and solutions, search information online independently…
A powerful AI model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week was revealed on Wednesday to be from Chinese smartphone and EV giant Xiaomi, after it fuelled speculation that start-up DeepSeek was quietly testing its next-generation system ahead of a launch. The release of DeepSeek’s low-cost models DeepSeek-V3 and R1 triggered a global…
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) was introduced in 2000 as the cornerstone of US development-oriented trade policy towards sub-Saharan Africa. It was designed to grant eligible countries duty-free access to the US market. In February 2026, President Donald Trump signed a one-year extension after the programme lapsed in September 2025. Yet the programme’s…
