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Sonnet update adds context and coding power: Sony can detect AI songs’ inspirations

Dreamer, a new agent platform that acts like an OS. A proposal to control access to infectious disease data. Tiny Aya, a small model family for India, Africa, West Asia, etc. Code to Canvas, where Figma teams up with Claude Code.
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Qwen announces new open-weights flagship update: GLM-5 is open and built for agents

OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI. Gemini DeepThink sets new science and reasoning marks. OpenAI partners with Cerebras for Codex-Spark. Hollywood sends cease-and-desists to Bytedance.
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Seedance creates new movie-making interface: Even top models struggle at identifying visual specifics

The future of ads in ChatGPT. AI stresses in high-tech workplaces. Big models’ curse of multilingual training. Opus 4.6’s expensive fast mode.
Two retro robots playing ping pong in a futuristic room with scoreboard showing Claude: 15, Codex: 14.
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Claude Opus 4.6 pushes the envelope: GPT-5.3-Codex shines on agentic coding and game building

Hugging Face’s community approach to benchmarks. Four cloud companies’ plans to spend $650 billion this year. A new proof of an old math problem. Frontier, OpenAI’s enterprise agent system.
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Codex app bypasses Cursor, VS Code on Mac: Qwen’s hyper-efficient coding model

xAI’s merger with SpaceX. Microsoft’s plan for AI companies to pay publishers. Xcode’s incorporation of Claude and Codex. Nvidia’s quantization method for reasoning models.
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Google opens up its video-game world builder: DeepSeek’s OCR model parses pages like humans

OpenAI’s internal data analysis agent. SERA, open-weights coding models built for agents. Google’s gene prediction research in Nature. GPT-4o’s swan song.
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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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