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xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT license, claiming that both models are among the most efficient available for “claw” agent tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 27, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Post-smartphone, with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders, builders and executives over…

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GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: How Anthropic’s product team is growing faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Product Manager, Claude…

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Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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MiniMax launches M2.7, proprietary software "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to create, monitor and optimize the model’s own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 20, 2026

Carl Franzen / BusinessBeat: MiniMax launches M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company has used to create, monitor and…

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Samsung researcher demonstrates the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7 million parameter model capable of outperforming 10,000 times larger LLMs like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 9, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Anthropic Product Manager: Why AI Model Development is Accelerating – With Mike Krieger The Big…

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Texas Butcherworm Cases Don’t Endanger Food Supply, Brooke Rollins Says

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to prepare espresso

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Browsing: FranzenVentureBeat

xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT license, claiming that both models are among the most efficient available for “claw” agent tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

MiniMax launches M2.7, proprietary software "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to create, monitor and optimize the model’s own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Samsung researcher demonstrates the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7 million parameter model capable of outperforming 10,000 times larger LLMs like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)