
MiniMax unmasks Space Bunny as its new M3.1 Flash model
The anonymous model that topped OpenRouter for ten days was MiniMax's M3.1 Flash. It matches DeepSeek's off-peak price, but independent tests flag a 93% hallucination rate.

Thousands of Android TV owners are pointing Claude Code at their sets to disable ads, telemetry and ACR tracking without root. Samsung, LG and Roku TVs stay out of reach.

Meta's first frontier model scores 52 on Artificial Analysis's index, level with GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon but behind Anthropic's Opus 5.5, which costs the same through the API.
OpenAI is seeking about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion, and wants it locked in before Anthropic's mid-November listing invites direct comparisons, Reuters reported.

The anonymous model that topped OpenRouter for ten days was MiniMax's M3.1 Flash. It matches DeepSeek's off-peak price, but independent tests flag a 93% hallucination rate.

Thousands of Android TV owners are pointing Claude Code at their sets to disable ads, telemetry and ACR tracking without root. Samsung, LG and Roku TVs stay out of reach.

Meta's first frontier model scores 52 on Artificial Analysis's index, level with GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon but behind Anthropic's Opus 5.5, which costs the same through the API.
OpenAI is seeking about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion, and wants it locked in before Anthropic's mid-November listing invites direct comparisons, Reuters reported.

Google says its five-day, no-cost AI Agents Intensive on Kaggle attracted 353,000 registrations, with 12,000+ capstone participants and 6,000+ project submissions — but the headline figure is registrations, not independently verified completions.
Stocks of Amazon, Meta and Microsoft rose after earnings that showed AI-driven cloud demand and revenue acceleration, but heavy capex is squeezing free cash flow.

Citadel Securities forecasts more than $500bn of debt by 2028 to finance AI chips, with much issuance maturing in 3–5 years and a slice coming as 144A placements.
Major paper gains from Anthropic and OpenAI stakes are inflating reported earnings at Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet, CNBC reports — masking true operating performance.

Julie Averill, a former Lululemon executive, tells the New York Times that A.I. is stalling not because models are weak but because companies won’t pay for messy integration work.

The Washington Post’s chart finds Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle may turn free-cash-flow negative next year as AI capital spending outpaces near-term monetisation.

DeepSeek launched a low-cost coding model, claiming $0.28 per output versus $25 on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and offering a 75% V4-Pro discount through May 5, intensifying a price war while raising questions about sustainability and real-world parity.

Industry coverage from IGN, Reuters and GamesRadar says generative AI is lowering development barriers and flooding storefronts with clones while AI‑driven chip demand is pushing hardware costs up. The twin forces risk making games feel worse and more expensive.