Speculation points to an updated GPT image model soon

A viral graphic cited on r/ClaudeAI puts Anthropic's valuation at $2 trillion against $948 billion for 35 SaaS companies combined, with Anthropic quarterly revenue listed at $11.5 billion versus $53.4 billion for the group. The poster calls the comparison "absolutely insane."

Subject to stockholder approval, 5% of Anthropic's shares go into the fund, with an extra 2% added at the board's discretion for every 50% increase in company value above a baseline. The fund is a wholly-owned LLC barred from lobbying or political giving.

A Reddit user steered Claude through a Super Mario 64 demake for the Game Boy Advance without writing the code themselves, choosing the project, direction and trade-offs. Mario's physics are claimed to be bit-identical to the original.

Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2026 presents a library of synthetic time series generators and augmentations for pre-training time series foundation models, using a linear RNN. The synthetic data has already been used in Toto-2 and TS-ICL.

Disney agreed to make offers to at least 60 Character.AI employees — the majority of its workforce — at an estimated $60M in annual compensation, alongside a $20M asset purchase. The filing cites high costs and litigation and regulatory liabilities; it's a stalking horse bid, so higher offers could come.

A Reddit creator used Krea 2 and MiniMax H3 inside ComfyUI to make a coastal-noir teaser for their song "No Rehearsals," citing character and visual consistency across scenes as the hardest part.

Blockway's v1 follows a Preview round that drew blunt criticism; the team says it now hits 0/50 loops and adds session continuation. An MIT-licensed engine runs the 32B model at 262K context (measured to 239K) within a 16 GB budget.