Gpt 5

Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model it says delivers significant gains in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. Google claims Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

AI Models • The Verge AI

Productivity

Simon Willison notes that Anthropic and OpenAI now offer API credits equivalent to $100/$200/$500 subscription tiers, which he says may let him ship public-facing demos since credits are already covered by existing subscriptions.

Washington Post tests found chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers, with Copilot citing the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22%. The findings raise concerns about AI-generated misinformation ahead of elections.

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