Google’s new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet

In addition to the examples, Google also has Elo scores from Arena.ai ready to go, showing that users rate Nano Banana 2 Lite ...

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
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LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that sp ...
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Voice agent APIs in 2026, compared: which one actually hears your users?

Compare AssemblyAI, OpenAI, Deepgram and ElevenLabs voice agent APIs on accuracy, pricing, latency, languages and production ...
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Running AI Locally, Part 2: From VMware Context to Hands-On Tools

Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.
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Uno Platform Helps Ship First Stable SkiaSharp 4.0 Release for 2D .NET Graphics

SkiaSharp 4.148.0 marks the first stable release in the SkiaSharp v4 line. The project is now co-maintained by Microsoft's .NET team and Uno Platform, reflecting a broader open-source collaboration.