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Moonshot lands a big one with Kimi K2.5: Qwen releases its own giant flagship reasoning model

OpenAI’s move to win over scientists and scholars. How U.S. workers are adopting (and not adopting) AI. Moltbot, an open-source local automation agent. Nvidia’s latest open weather and climate models.
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Anthropic updates Claude’s founding document: AI companies are obsessed with one video game

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, a smartphone-sized reasoning model. Adobe’s initiative to win over the movie business. Google’s partnership with Japan’s biggest startup. AI companies’ relationship reset with U.S. government.
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An AI system to identify teen ChatGPT users: GLM-4.7-Flash, a top 30B parameter model, is free to use

Persona drift: how prompts can enable bad behavior. X’s transformer-based personalization algorithm. How Cursor agents built a working web browser in a week. Expanding ChatGPT and model access for students.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go worldwide: Anthropic sees AI failure as an economic bottleneck

GLM-Image, an open-weights hybrid image model. TranslateGemma, Google’s fast translation model. Wikipedia’s new partnerships with AI companies. FLUX.2 [klein], a noncommercial image model for consumer hardware.
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Cowork, Claude Code’s non-coding cousin: Apple and Google’s new AI partnership

Anthropic’s play for the healthcare market. UCP, a new standard for agentic shopping. Malaysia and Indonesia’s stand against Grok. DeepSeek’s new memory management method.
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China and Nvidia make a deal: OpenAI’s new health and wellness app

Universal and Nvidia’s music partnership. A new set of benchmarks for evaluating top models. Test-time learning, a method of training for long-context. Character.AI’s settlements in teen suicide cases.
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Google and Boston Dynamics teams team up: Nvidia partners with Mercedes-Benz on autonomous cars

Qwen’s improved open-weights image editing model. Yann LeCun’s last research paper for Meta. Falcon H1R 7B, a hybrid reasoning model. SWE-Lego, a training recipe for squashing software bugs.
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Meta buys Manus for its agentic tech: Nvidia licenses Groq’s fast inference chips

GLM-4.7, Zhipu’s open-weights reasoning model. Minimax’s M2.1 update ahead of planned company IPO. India’s intervention to restrict Grok’s deepfake nudes. Scientific Context Protocol, a new standard for research agents.
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Readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026, Part Two: A special New Year’s issue of Data Points

Usually, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. But in today’s special New Year’s 2026 edition, you’ll find something different: a collection of our readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026.
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Readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026, Part One: A special New Year’s issue of Data Points

Usually, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. But in today’s special New Year’s 2026 edition, you’ll find something different: a collection of our readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026.
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During Bay Area blackout, Waymo conks out: Meta’s Segment Anything family adds audio

GPT-5.2 Codex, OpenAI’s new agentic coding model. Qwen’s image layer segmentation model. A2UI, an open Google project to help agents build apps. Training robots to learn from human actions.
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Gemini 3 Flash delivers fast, low-cost reasoning: Tencent’s video world model maintains scenes and geometries

GPT’s leaderboard-topping Image 1.5. Qwen’s 30B long-context reasoning model. iRobot’s bankruptcy and planned acquisition. Microsoft’s Voxel 3D generation model.
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Gemini makes Deep Research available via API: Disney and OpenAI form a Sora licensing deal

Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 family of models, including a 30B standout. Microsoft’s RL-powered Agent Lightning. Google’s new Flash voice models and translation agents. “Slop,” 2025’s word of the year.
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Anthropic, OpenAI donate open-source projects: GPT-5.2 arrives with new document creation abilities

Mistral’s Devstral 2’s cost-effective coding. GLM-4.6V’s addition of native function calling to vision-language reasoning. Cursor 2.2’s debug and web developer modes. A new executive order preempting local AI regulations in the U.S.
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Gemini 3 adds compute-intensive Deep Think: Two famous math problems solved by 10-person AI startup

An executive order that would challenge state AI regulations in the U.S. An 8B parameter open model that shines at coding and math tasks. Publishers’ copyright and trademark lawsuits against Perplexity. Gemini 3 Pro’s ability to visually recognize handwriting from any period.
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