Author: Advanced AI Editor

Acqui-hires feel like they’re here to stay: The team behind Alex, a popular tool that lets developers use AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI. In a post on X, Alex’s founder Daniel Edrisian said the startup’s team is joining OpenAI’s Codex division, which is building the company’s AI coding agent. Y Combinator-backed Alex was founded in 2024 and sought to integrate AI models into Xcode. Apple, however, earlier this year updated Xcode to let users tap ChatGPT and other AI models without needing external tools. Edrisian didn’t mention if this was a reason his startup’s team…

Long-form video understanding, characterized by long-range temporal dependencies and multiple events, remains a challenge. Existing methods often rely on static reasoning or external visual-language models (VLMs), which face issues like complexity and sub-optimal performance due to the lack of end-to-end training. In this paper, we propose Video-MTR, a reinforced multi-turn reasoning framework designed to enable iterative key video segment selection and question comprehension. Unlike traditional video reasoning pipeline, which generate predictions in a single turn, Video-MTR performs reasoning in multiple turns, selecting video segments progressively based on the evolving understanding of previously processed segments and the current question. This iterative…

The Alibaba Tongyi Qwen team announced today that its latest developed language model, Qwen-3-Max-Preview, has officially launched on the official website and the OpenRouter platform. This model, positioned as the peak of the Tongyi Qwen series, has achieved breakthrough improvements in multiple technical metrics.Technical documentation indicates that Qwen3-Max builds on the architecture of the Qwen3 series, with deep optimizations targeting core capabilities such as inference computation, instruction response, multilingual processing, and long-tail knowledge coverage. Compared to the version released in January 2025, the new model exhibits higher accuracy in scenarios involving mathematical operations, code generation, logical reasoning, and scientific task…

What happens when four of the most advanced AI models go head-to-head in a battle of wits, precision, and adaptability? In an era where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries and redefining creativity, the competition between ChatGPT 5, Gemini Pro, Claude Opus 4.1, and Grok is nothing short of new. Each promises unparalleled capabilities, from solving intricate problems to generating flawless code, but which one truly delivers? This coverage dives into their strengths and shortcomings across critical areas like reasoning, coding, and user interface design. The results might surprise you, especially when it comes to how they handle high-stakes tasks like…

In the age of artificial intelligence, there are models springing left and right: some are used for retails, others to predict the market, there are even specific AI engineered to turn any photograph into a cute, Ghibli-style illustration. While some of them seem silly, and others straight up terrifying (who wants a machine to predict their shopping patterns better than themselves?), the NASA and IBM have conjured to create Surya. This AI model is able to mimic with pinpoint accuracy our sun, and will let us know in advance when to expect solar storms. The team named the model Surya…

Android and Pixel have both announced some exciting updates to their device ecosystem. The updates span across AI writing tools, an emoji keyboard browse function, a Quick Share redesign, audio sharing capabilities, the introduction of the Androidify bot, and Pixel Drop updates. Included in the Android ecosystem updates is the introduction of AI writing tools to Gboard. These tools will help users improve their writing style, proof-read and correct text. A new feature allows users to generate memes in Gboard and receive caption suggestions that can be easily altered. Emoji Keyboard’s new browse function will make it easier to find…

Dr. Regina Barzilay’s world turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014. It seemed to come out of nowhere. She didn’t know anyone in her family who had BRCA genes — the genes normally associated with higher risks of developing breast and ovarian cancer — and she was living a healthy lifestyle.Barzilay said she wishes that she had had access to an artificial intelligence tool she later developed with Massachusetts Institute of Technology students called Mirai. The tool takes a mammogram and determines the likelihood of developing the disease in five years.Mirai, released in 2019, is…

Isotopes AI came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products have struggled with for decades: The people who know how to run the big data infrastructure are not the ones who actually need to use the data. With LLMs, business managers can ask questions of their data in natural language. Isotopes’ agent, Aidnn, can provide answers and draft complex planning documents, gathering data from wherever it’s stored, like finance apps, ERP, CRM, and cloud storage. There are countless agentic business analytics offerings…

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown that their reasoning capabilities can be significantly improved through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR), particularly in domains like mathematics and programming, where ground-truth correctness can be automatically evaluated. However, extending this success to other reasoning-intensive domains remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality, verifiable datasets and the high cost of human supervision. In this work, we introduce the Loong Project: an open-source framework for scalable synthetic data generation and verification across a diverse range of reasoning-intensive domains. The framework consists of two key components: (1) LoongBench, a curated seed…

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: ShutterstockAnthropic has updated its terms of service to block access to its Claude AI models for any company that’s majority-owned or controlled by Chinese entities, regardless of where those companies are based.The company says this decision is about “legal, regulatory, and security risks” and ensuring that “authoritarian” regimes do not have access to its cutting-edge models.Chinese entities “could use our capabilities to develop applications and services that ultimately serve adversarial military and intelligence services,” Anthropic said in its press release published on September…