Artificial Intelligence

AI models, tools and the latest developments in the industry.

• MiniMax Unmasks Space Bunny as M3.1 Flash After 200T Tokens

  MiniMax officially launched M3.1 Flash, confirming it was the mysterious 'Space Bunny' that dominated OpenRouter with over 56 trillion tokens.

• Arm's AGI CPU Claims 1.99x AMD Rack Performance, With a Catch

  Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly twice AMD's rack-level performance in agentic AI workloads. The catch: much of the advantage comes from power modelling, not shipped silicon.

• Apple's $250M Siri Settlement Opens Claims, $95 Payouts Possible

  Apple's $250 million Siri false-advertising settlement is taking claims until Dec. 21. Eligible iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 buyers could get $25–$95 per device.

• Microsoft's Maia 300 Bets on Memory, Not Muscle, to Cut AI Costs

  Microsoft will make its own Maia 300 chip the primary engine for AI inference at multi-gigawatt scale in 2027. The bet is on memory bandwidth, not raw compute.

• AWS and Anthropic Bet $1B on Engineers to Prove AI Pays Off

  Forward-deployed engineer job ads jumped 6x for a second straight year as AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI spend billions to prove AI actually pays off.

• Five Scraping Brands Unite as Source, a $3.6B AI Data Bet

  Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee and Honeygain are now one $3.6 billion family called Source, and it says AI agents have quadrupled demand.

• AI Builders Save Small Businesses $850 as Web Dev Gigs Fall 59%

  A Bluehost survey finds 53% of small business owners use AI website builders, saving $850 and 32 hours on average. Freelance web design gigs are down 59%.

• Meta and Apple Drop Muse Spark Open, a 42B Open Model

  Meta and Apple co-developed Muse Spark Open, a 42-billion-parameter open-weights AI model that needs two M5 Mac Studio Ultras to run locally.

• Accenture Caps Claude at $29/Month After $1,000 AI Bills

  Accenture now gives employees just $29 a month in Claude Enterprise credits, after some were burning $1,000. The era of blank-check AI budgets is ending.

• Anthropic Beats OpenAI as 1 in 8 UK SMEs Now Pays for AI

  One in eight UK small businesses now pays for AI, and they're routing 54% of that spend to Anthropic's Claude rather than ChatGPT.

• AI's $2.5 Trillion Bet Needs 250 Million Jobs to Break Even

  AI has already consumed $1.5 trillion in infrastructure. To break even, it must replace 250 million jobs—more than the entire US nonfarm workforce.

• AI Banking in Europe: 59% Want Personal Advice, 26% Already Switched

  European banks are deploying AI to deliver real-time, hyper-personalized experiences. Surveys show 59% of customers want tailored advice, and 26% have already switched banks over…