Top story

TOP STORY: Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic Google is set to make a landmark $40 billion investment in Anthropic, dramatically deepening its commitment to the AI safety-focused lab. Bloomberg

Industry

OpenAI Launches GPT-Image-2 in API and Codex. OpenAI has released its next-generation image model, GPT-Image-2, now available directly in the API and Codex. OpenAI Community

DeepSeek-V4 Arrives with Million-Token Context. DeepSeek's open-source V4 model offers a million-token context window designed for practical use in long-horizon agentic workflows. Hugging Face Blog

I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support. A developer documents their decision to cancel their Claude subscription, citing degrading output quality and unresponsive support. nickyreinert.de

White House Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Technology Theft. The White House has publicly charged China with systematically stealing American AI technology at an unprecedented scale. US News

Research

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning. A new paper argues that a rigorous, predictive scientific theory of deep learning is not only possible but inevitable. arXiv

Temporally Extended Mixture-of-Experts Models. Researchers propose a new MoE architecture that incorporates temporal context across sequential inputs for improved long-range modeling. Hugging Face Papers

3D-VCD: Hallucination Mitigation in Embodied 3D Agents. This paper introduces visual contrastive decoding to reduce hallucinations in LLM-powered 3D embodied agents. Hugging Face Papers

PersonalAI: Comparing Knowledge Graph Approaches for Personalized LLM Agents. A systematic benchmark evaluates different knowledge graph storage and retrieval strategies for building personalized AI agents. Hugging Face Papers

Tools

GPT-5.5 Prompting Guide. Simon Willison breaks down practical prompting strategies optimized for GPT-5.5's capabilities. Simon Willison

LLM 0.31 Released. Simon Willison's llm command-line tool ships a new version with updated features for interacting with language models locally and via API. Simon Willison

How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension. A step-by-step guide for embedding Hugging Face's Transformers.js library directly into a browser extension. Hugging Face Blog

Cohere MoE Model Coming Soon to vLLM. An open pull request signals that a new Mixture-of-Experts model from Cohere is being prepared for vLLM integration. GitHub

Community

This Is Where We Are Right Now. A widely upvoted LocalLLaMA post captures the community's current sentiment on the state of local AI models. Reddit/LocalLLaMA

Nous Research AMA Announcement, Hermes Agent Team. The open-source lab behind the Hermes agent series is hosting a live AMA on Wednesday, 8–11AM PST. Reddit/LocalLLaMA

The People Do Not Yearn for Automation. Simon Willison reflects on the disconnect between AI industry enthusiasm for automation and actual public desire for it. Simon Willison