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Go to the sourceswissAI is hosting the east#AI event—join us on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, in St. Gallen. east#AI sees itself as a catalyst for the region: It’s a place where companies, pioneers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts come together to discover new perspectives, experience concrete applications, and help shape the future of AI. The goal is to highlight the innovative strength of Eastern Switzerland, foster synergies, and provide sustainable impetus for the economy, education, and society.
Go to the sourceWith the new command in Claude Code, developers can design appropriate user interfaces directly in the terminal. The AI automatically takes the style of the existing codebase into account.
Go to the sourceGoogle's Gemini has surpassed the billion-user mark: CEO Pichai reports that the app has over 1 billion monthly users. This makes Gemini the 14th Google product to join this club, putting it on par with OpenAI's ChatGPT (which reached the billion-user mark in June). 63% of users interact directly with the assistant, which generates more than 150 million images daily.
Go to the sourceThe AI provider uses Google’s SynthID text approach and has Claude embed a pattern—invisible to readers—into seemingly trivial word choices such as “gray” or “cloudy,” a pattern that can only be detected with the appropriate key. The reason: the transparency rules of the EU AI Act.
Go to the sourceOpenAI and Anthropic are lowering the prices of their models because companies are switching to cheaper Chinese alternatives as AI costs rise. · Specifically, this means that prices for leading U.S. models have fallen by nearly a quarter on average since mid-July GPT-5.6 Luna now costs only one-fifth of its previous price—Opus 5 now costs half as much as the top-of-the-line Fable 5 model, and a planned price increase for Sonnet 5 has been scrapped · China is on the offensive: Open models from Moonshot and DeepSeek have narrowed the performance gap and are significantly cheaper. As a result, Airbnb and DoorDash are already using Chinese models.
Go to the sourceWhile current AI models can solve engineering problems, they fall short when it comes to conducting independent scientific research. This contradicts the optimistic predictions of major AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Go to the sourceAnthropic observed coordination problems, collusion, and sabotage among Claude agents with conflicting goals. Having multiple powerful agents does not automatically make a system more reliable.
Go to the sourceIn the future, SRG would like to make its audiovisual archive available to ETH Zurich and EPFL in Lausanne so that they can use it to train their AI, Apertus. For Imanol Schlag, the AI’s lead developer, this dataset would be extremely valuable, in part because of the audio material: it consists of recordings in all of Switzerland’s national languages and many dialects.
Go to the sourcePulse of Change Study: 49% of Swiss workers use AI daily, the highest rate in Europe. 88% report greater satisfaction, but more than half fear that it will be harder for new entrants to the workforce to get started.
Go to the sourceStanford Study: People who seek emotional closeness through AI companions like Character.AI often feel lonelier, especially if they have a small social network. Chatbots are designed to engage users; their own well-being is not a consideration.
Go to the sourceThe swissAI association is continuously expanding its web platform and offering new features, such as a comprehensive comparison of Swiss AI chatbots.
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