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Venice AI Valued at $1 Billion as Erik Voorhees Makes the Case for Private ChatGPT Rivals

Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users' conversations.

Vibe-coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

Wix-owned vibe-coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually ...
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Ornith Is the Open-Source Coding Model Built for Agents, Not Humans

Ornith 1.0 by DeepReinforce is meant for developers who want AI that finishes the job, not just autocompletes the next line.

Best AI-Native Loan Origination Platforms in 2026

Best AI-Native Loan Origination Platforms in 2026. Loan origination is being rebuilt around AI. I'm the founder of SecureLend ...

Anthropic’s Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified US government systems, official says

A U.S. official says one of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive and ...
eWeek

GPT-5.6 Rumors: Everything We Think We Know

GPT-5.6 rumors point to a bigger OpenAI shift toward coding agents, browser testing, frontend generation, and workflow-focused AI.
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
Gizmochina

Xiaomi announces new AI coding agent that actually remembers what it was doing

Xiaomi just open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, its new terminal-based AI coding assistant that is trying to solve one of the biggest frustrations with AI-powered programming tools: they tend to lose track ...
techtimes

Microsoft’s First In-House Coding Model Beats Claude Haiku 4.5 — and Loosens Its Grip on OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) speaks with Microsoft Chief Technology Officer and Executive VP of Artificial Intelligence Kevin Scott during the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center ...
PC Magazine

Gemini 3.5 Flash Is the Fastest AI Coding Model I've Used...and Extremely Error-Prone

Gemini 3.5 Flash is shockingly fast at generating code and spinning up agents, but that speed comes at a cost: sloppy execution, ignored instructions, and frequent mistakes that break real workflows.
techtimes

MiniMax M3 Open-Weight Coding Model: Frontier Claims, Unverified Benchmarks

a mobile phone's screen showing the logo of Chinese AI MiniMax in Beijing on January 21, 2026. WANG Zhao/Getty Images Shanghai-based MiniMax launched its M3 foundation model on Monday, June 1, 2026, ...
CNBC

Microsoft and Google are late to AI coding, but 'absolutely critical' they compete for growth

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...