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Artificial Intelligence

Frontier Models

The largest general-purpose models and the race at the edge of capability.

27 July 2026 Navigating the Geopolitical Divide in Open-Weight AI Development Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's latest remarks highlight the complex balance between open-weight AI distribution and geopolitical competition with China. 2 min 26 July 2026 Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 Amid Governance Pressures Anthropic's launch of Claude Opus 5 highlights a narrowing gap in model tiers amid heightened policy scrutiny across the sector. 2 min 26 July 2026 ChatGPT Moves into Health Records: A High-Risk Patient Strategy OpenAI is allowing users to connect Apple Health and medical records to ChatGPT, raising critical questions around privacy, liability, and regulation. 3 min 26 July 2026 Beyond the Panic: What Chinese AI Progress Means for Silicon Valley Market reactions to Chinese LLMs like Moonshot AI's Kimi highlight growing anxiety in Silicon Valley over global frontier model parity. 3 min 26 July 2026 Beyond Video: Why Physical AI Needs Neural Telemetry Physical AI developers are looking beyond passive video toward multi-camera data and neural telemetry to train dexterous robots. 3 min 23 July 2026 Agentic AI, explained: what changes when the model can act An agent is just a language model wired into a loop where it can call tools, read the result, and decide what to do next. That small architectural change is where most of the promise — and most of the fragility — lives. 3 min 18 July 2026 The long-context trap: why a bigger window isn't better memory A million-token context window sounds like unlimited memory. In practice, what a model attends to reliably is smaller and stranger than the headline number suggests. 3 min