Microsoft's Phi-4 Vision Matches Models 10x Its Size
Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B - a 15B open-weight multimodal model trained on 240 GPUs in 4 days that competes with 100B+ parameter models on math, science, and GUI understanding.
News
Cursor Launches Always-On AI Coding Agents
Cursor's new Automations feature triggers AI coding agents from GitHub PRs, Slack messages, and PagerDuty incidents - running hundreds per hour as the company's revenue doubles to $2B ARR.
NotebookLM Now Turns Your Notes Into Cinematic Videos
Google's NotebookLM can now generate documentary-style cinematic videos from uploaded documents using Gemini 3 as creative director and Veo 3 for visuals - a major step beyond its viral audio podcasts.
Meta Signs $150M Deal to License News Corp Content for AI
Meta will pay News Corp up to $50 million per year for three years to license Wall Street Journal and other content for Meta AI training and chatbot responses.
Oregon Passes First 2026 Chatbot Safety Bill for Minors
Oregon's SB 1546 requires chatbot operators to implement suicide safeguards, disclose AI nature to minors, and ban engagement-maximizing rewards for kids. The 28-2 Senate vote makes it the first chatbot safety bill to pass in 2026.
Ai2 Releases OLMo Hybrid - Open Transformer-RNN That Halves Token Cost
OLMo Hybrid combines transformer attention with Gated DeltaNet to match OLMo 3 accuracy using 49% fewer tokens and 75% better throughput on long contexts. Fully open - weights, checkpoints, training code, and technical report.
