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Anthropic Adjusts Claude Code Usage Limits: Basic Quota Permanently Increased by 25%, Actual Weekly Cap Reduced by 17%

Anthropic will permanently raise Claude Code paid plan's base weekly quota by 25% from Sept 14, but ending the 50% temporary boost cuts actual weekly availability by 17% vs current. The company says it is adjusting strategy.....

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China's First AIGC Long Drama 'The Later Journey to the West' Premieres Today, Also the First Series to Be Reviewed and Broadcasted Simultaneously

China's first AIGC long drama "Post-Journey to the West" premieres Aug 31, 18:00, with 5 episodes of "Huaguo Mountain" (40 min each), on Mango TV and Hunan TV at 20:00, SVIP/VIP early access. Adapted from a late Ming-early Qing novel; Season 1 has 30 episodes reimagining the Journey to the West sequel.....

15 hr ago12.2K

Music Giants Join Forces to Attack AI: Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic for Alleged Large-Scale Copyright Theft

Sony and Warner sue AI firm Anthropic, alleging unauthorized use of tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train Claude, calling it one of the largest and most egregious IP infringements in history. The lawsuit also names founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, accusing aggressive tactics.....

15 hr ago10.5K

Glassdoor Report: Employee Satisfaction with AI in the U.S. Drops to 43% as Generative AI Sparks Workplace Frustration

Glassdoor data shows a significant decline in employee satisfaction with companies introducing AI. Between 2019 and 2026, the proportion of comments involving keywords such as AI and large language models increased by over 240%. However, positive reviews dropped from 81% to 43%, while negative reviews rose to 53%, reflecting a shift in workplace attitudes toward AI implementation towards the negative.

15 hr ago10.9K

Under $400, you can train it yourself! Hugging Face launches the Microduck, a mini open-source bipedal robot

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics open-sourced Microduck, a 25cm, ~800g mini bipedal robot powered by Rockchip RK3566, controlling 15 servos at 50Hz. It combines RL, Sim2Real and real-time control as an embodied AI dev platform with practical skills.....

15 hr ago9.9K

Denmark Takes Immediate Action to Tackle AI Cheating: Add Oral Defense and Monitor Exam Computer Screens

The increase in AI cheating in Danish high schools has led the government to introduce an emergency plan: instead of banning AI, it aims to regulate its use. About 9,000 students per year will add an oral defense in addition to written assignments, and their computer screens will be monitored during written exams to curb AI-written assignments and exam cheating, addressing the challenges posed by generative AI to traditional education.

15 hr ago8.2K

Mihoyo AI Girlfriend 'BSide: Olivia Lin' Ceases Operations Less Than a Month After Launch, Offline Version Available for Limited Time Today

The Mihoyo desktop companion software 'BSide: Olivia Lin' was shut down on August 31st, less than a month after its Steam Early Access launch on July 13th. The official also released an offline version, which requires a limited-time download before 15:00 on the same day. After the server shutdown, users can still locally listen to the character 'Lin Li's' performances and use some of the companionship features such as dynamic wallpapers.

15 hr ago9.4K

Deep Alignment and Self-Developed Persistence: ByteDance's Douyin Large Model 2.2 Announces Delayed Launch

ByteDance delayed Doubao Model 2.2, originally due in August, to extend pre-training and post-training, strengthening programming, tool calling, and Agent capabilities for a performance leap. As a technical fill-in between generations, 2.2 takes a solid path, fixing coding pain points early.....

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China's First AI-Generated Long Drama 'The Later Journey to the West' Premieres Today, Introducing a New Model of Reviewing and Broadcasting Simultaneously

China's first fully AI-generated long-form series "Hou Xi You Ji" premieres Aug 31: 18:00 on Mango TV, 20:00 on Hunan TV. First batch "Flower-Fruit Mountain" has 5 episodes, 40 min each; SVIP gets 3, VIP 2. Adapted from a late Ming/early Qing myth novel, a sequel to Journey to the West.....

15 hr ago10.1K

Tencent WorkBuddy Launches Integration with Hy4preview: Domestic and Overseas Versions Synchronized, Two-Week Free Trial Started

On Aug 28, Tencent WorkBuddy first integrated Hunyuan open-source flagship model Hy4preview, launched globally. Hy4preview free for two weeks; Hy3 free extended to Sep 30. Total params 770B, active 49B, 1M context, targeting code, office, science productivity; open-sourced on HuggingFace etc.....

3 days ago27.5K

Tencent Hunyuan Hy4 Preview Open Source: 770B Parameters, Million-Context, Standing at the Forefront of Open Source

Tencent releases Hunyuan Hy4 preview open-source model: 770B total/49B active params, 1M context. Official: pretraining & post-training co-advance, top open-source tier. Live on HuggingFace, GitHub, ModelScope, Gitcode; integrated with Tencent Cloud TokenHub & OpenRouter. Blind tests beat GLM-5.3 & Kimi K3 in productivity.....

3 days ago23.9K

Tencent Hunyuan Large Model Upgraded: 770B Flagship New Version Hy4preview Shockingly Open-Source, Directly Enters the First Tier of Open-Source Models

Tencent Hunyuan released the preview version of its flagship model, Hy4preview, with a total parameter count of 770B and an activated parameter count of 49B. It supports a context length of 1M. This model performs exceptionally well in real productivity tasks such as coding, office work, and science, ranking among the first-tier open-source models. Its comprehensive performance in internal blind tests exceeds that of similar competitors, and it has already been applied in multiple fields within Tencent.

3 days ago19.0K

Weibo Reports that the Chat Records Between Sun Yuchong and Eileen Gu Were Fabricated by AI and the Rumor-Mongering Accounts Have Been Permanently Closed

Weibo announced that the chat records between Sun Yuchong and Eileen Gu, which were circulated online, were fabricated rumors, and relevant content has been handled. Sun Yuchong's ex-girlfriend Zeng Ying denied posting nude photos, stating that the entire set of records was generated by AI, and exposed that the rumor-mongers bought traffic to push hot topics, showing obvious traces of black industry involvement, with the involved accounts only following one person across the platform.

3 days ago21.0K

Ant Group Collaborates with CICC to Launch the First Financial-Enhanced Large Model Ling-3.0-flash-Fin

Ant Group, CICC and partners released Ling-3.0-flash-Fin, Ant Bailing's first finance-enhanced LLM. It retains the original architecture, trained on massive financial data, strengthening investment research and four core capabilities like information retrieval, with strong professional and general performance.....

3 days ago21.1K

Tencent Hunyuan launches open-source flagship model Hy4preview with 770B total parameters and 1M context

Tencent Hunyuan released the open-source flagship large model Hy4preview on August 28th, with a total of 770B parameters and 49B activated parameters, and a context length of 1M, positioning it as real productivity. The model has been open-sourced on HuggingFace, GitHub, ModelScope, and is also available on Tencent Cloud TokenHub and OpenRouter. It can be experienced through WorkBuddy/CodeBuddy, Yaobao, and IMA. It was built using expert data from fields such as software engineering, games, finance, and security.

3 days ago22.5K

Anthropic Launches Major Model Hardware Standard MHS, AI Agent Officially Advances to Physical Control

Anthropic introduced the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), aiming to enable large model-driven AI agents to safely and efficiently control physical devices, marking a crucial step in bridging the virtual and real worlds. The standard originated from collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Campus, and is now available for preview to early research laboratories and advanced manufacturers, with significant improvements in practical application efficiency.

3 days ago18.4K

Anthropic Launches MHS Hardware Standard, Making Its Strong Entry into the Physical AI Arena

On Aug 27, Anthropic launched the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) as a research preview, seen as its first public move into embodied AI. Like MCP, it offers unified control and communication, giving AI a 'body' to operate autonomous vehicles, robotic arms, perceive, act, and learn.....

3 days ago18.2K

Alibaba Launches New Qoder: Upgraded from AI Programming Tool to Intelligent Agent Workstation for Everyone

Alibaba launched Qoder, upgrading its AI coding IDE into an agent workbench centered on coding. Users state goals in natural language; it understands context, plans, calls tools, executes and verifies, with visibility, adjustment or takeover throughout. In one year, over 6M users and 100K enterprises. The new version reflects three collaboration paradigm shifts.....

3 days ago21.5K

Midjourney V8.2 Launches Image Editing Model with Full Function Support for Instruction Fine-tuning and Canvas Expansion

Midjourney recently beta-tested its first V8.2 image editing model, breaking the text-only generation mode by integrating instruction fine-tuning, multi-image reference, and inpainting, offering creators more precise and controllable professional visual creation.....

3 days ago18.2K

Xiaopeng's Second-Generation VLA Large Model Receives First Major Upgrade, Comprehensive Safety Capabilities Increase by 20 Times

On Aug 27, XPeng unveiled a major upgrade to its second-gen VLA model at the 'TIME' AI event; XOS 6.3.0 debuts on G9L. The AI now understands time, advancing from static 3D to dynamic 4D spatiotemporal understanding, with larger on-device parameters to validate the Scaling Law for autonomous driving.....

3 days ago17.7K