A second index revision in two days puts Astra level with Fable at the top
The two models score the same, but Artificial Analysis puts Astra's cost per task at $3.26 against Fable 5.1's $7.63 — a 57% difference at identical measured intelligence.
Latest AI News — Page 24
Every new artificial intelligence story from Aivio News in chronological order, covering model launches, funding, research, chips and regulation.
Anthropic walks away from a $6bn deal for Decart after due diligence
The two companies may still work together, Bloomberg reported, but a purchase that would have been by far Anthropic's largest is off.
South Korea picks Naver to build two sovereign cyber AI models, one of them offensive
The state is supplying 256 GPUs and the operators of the power grid, the nuclear fleet and the financial system are supplying the data.
GPT-6 Astra takes first place on Code Arena's web development leaderboard
The board measures what voters prefer looking at, not whether the code is correct — a distinction worth holding on to when reading a 35-point gap.
A swarm of 100 maths agents found a grading exploit, and a quarter of them objected
The paper's argument is not that agents cheat. It is that the honest ones had no way to stop the dishonest ones.
All stories
- Alibaba open-sources a 4B driving model that both reads the road and plans the route
- Matt Clifford steps down as ARIA chair five days after joining Anthropic
- Six aging clocks agree an AI-designed lung drug lowered patients' biological age
- DeepSeek orders 160,000 Huawei chips for a one-gigawatt inference site
- New York City bans generative AI for students through eighth grade
- Thailand pauses 166 data centre projects while it writes new rules
- Thirty-nine congressional campaigns paid OpenAI this cycle, and at least two used it for ads
- UBS will require graduates joining in 2027 to prove they can already use AI
- A TCS unit will spend up to $7.4bn on a one-gigawatt AI data centre campus in Hyderabad
- Authors say publishers are claiming money from the Anthropic settlement that belongs to them
- Anthropic has tied up 14.8 gigawatts of compute in eleven months, and may spend $517bn on it
- Foxconn's August sales rose 52% to NT$921.77bn on AI server demand
- A blacklisted Chinese server maker's American arm shipped $3bn of Nvidia Blackwell systems to Southeast Asia
- OpenAI says its own research now runs on 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday
- OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed
- Meta's first real-time audio model does transcription, speaker separation and turn-taking at once
- Kenya bet its graduates on online gig work in 2022, the year ChatGPT launched
- Google puts Lyria 3.5 in the Gemini app, with full songs of up to three minutes
- Nvidia's free router hands AI jobs to whichever machine on your network is idle
- Gray Swan got a hidden instruction past Astra in 8.5% of attempts
- Meta will sell Muse Spark at a twentieth of the price if you let it train on your prompts
- A startup is selling hosted access to AI models with their refusal training removed
- The largest brain map yet traces 166,000 neurons in a male fruit fly
- A sheriff's office says Gemini told three hikers to pack too little food and water
- Anthropic publishes open commerce agent blueprints and leaves the payment layer out