On October 6, 2026 Google released Nano Banana 2.1, a Gemini 3.6 Flash–based image generation and conversational editing model rolling out across Gemini, AI Mode, AI Studio and the Gemini API, with paid-tier image output priced at roughly half of Nano Banana 2.
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related…
The 740-million-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, code, images, video and audio into a single embedding space, enabling private, offline search and retrieval on devices such as smartphones.
AI cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, led by Blackstone and Coatue, as its backlog jumped to $50 billion in September from $15 billion in June, The Wall Street Journal reported.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told Bloomberg TV that Anthropic’s Mythos model has exposed previously unknown vulnerabilities and sharply raised global cybersecurity risk, adding that the bank is working to fix the problem rather than debating whether it is existential.
Anthropic has merged Project Glasswing and its Cyber Verification Program into an expanded three-tier scheme giving vetted defenders access to Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1 with reduced safeguards.
A memo from acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter directs Justice Department employees to use “super intelligence” and “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” and “AI”, implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order of September 29.
