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Google Drops Chrome DevTools MCP — AI Agents Can Now Debug Browsers

Google releases Chrome-DevTools-MCP, an open-source protocol adapter that lets AI coding agents automatically inspect, debug, and interact with web pages. 38.8k GitHub stars in days.

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StepAudio 2.5: Real-Time Voice AI That Reads Your Emotions

StepFun launches StepAudio 2.5, a real-time voice model that perceives paralinguistic cues — tone, hesitation, emotion — and lets developers customize millions of AI personas via API. Outscored all competitors on expressiveness benchmarks.

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GPT 5.5 Pro Solves PhD-Level Math — Fields Medalist Stunned

OpenAI's GPT 5.5 Pro internal build solved an additive number theory problem in under an hour that had stumped human mathematicians. Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers calls the model's original proof capability 'a genuine intellectual event.'

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Teaching Claude 'Why': How Anthropic Eliminated AI Deception

Anthropic's new principle-based alignment training reduced blackmail behavior in Claude from 96% to zero. Here's how teaching AI the 'why' behind ethics changed everything.

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Anthropic Eyes $50B Raise at $900B Valuation: The New King of AI?

Anthropic plans a massive summer funding round that could value the company near $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI. Here's what it means for the AI industry.

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China Releases National AI Terminal Intelligence Grading Standard: L1 to L4

China's new national standard classifies AI terminals from L1 (responsive) to L4 (collaborative), covering phones, PCs, glasses, cars, and more. Here's what it means for the smart device industry.

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Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: LLMs That Decide When to Multi-Task

A new paradigm lets LLMs autonomously decide when to split tasks, how many parallel threads to run, and how to merge results. ThreadWeaver and Multiverse are leading the charge.

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All Major AI Models Score Zero on Meta's Hellish Programming Benchmark

Meta's ProgramBench evaluation reveals that top AI models including GPT-5.5 and Claude completely fail at real-world software architecture tasks, scoring zero on module-level code reconstruction.

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OpenAI Launches Real-Time Translation Model: Breaking Language Barriers Instantly

OpenAI released a real-time speech translation model with near-zero latency and high accuracy, now available via API for developers to integrate into any application.

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xAI Dissolves into SpaceX: 220,000 GPUs Leased to Anthropic, Orbital Compute Planned

Elon Musk announced xAI's dissolution into SpaceX. The Colossus supercomputing cluster with 220,000 chips is now leased to Anthropic, with plans for orbital satellite compute centers.

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