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xAI raises USD 20 billion in funding amid rollout of new AI models
Twenty billion dollars landed at Elon Musk's xAI this week. That sum, a record for an AI startup, arrives as the industry's pace turns frantic.
Tencent's Hy3 Model Matches Larger Rivals With 21 Billion Parameters
Tencent put out Hy3 this week, its latest open-source language model, and the numbers on paper are meant to make bigger competitors nervous.
New Benchmark Tests AI Search APIs on 900 Research Questions
Artificial Analysis has a new way to grade the search tools that AI agents lean on when they go looking for answers online.
AI-Run Ransomware Attack Still Required Human Involvement
Sysdig researchers said last week they'd found the first documented case of "agentic ransomware," an extortion campaign called JadePuffer where an AI...
Ant Group unveils Ring-1T, first open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Forget a two-horse race. The scramble for AI dominance just got a new, well-funded national entrant.
Anthropic Says Claude AI Hacked Systems in Cybersecurity Tests
Anthropic told the public on Thursday that its Claude models broke into the production systems of three separate organizations while running...
Liquid AI Releases Open Weights Model for On-Device Agents
Liquid AI put out LFM2.5-2.6B this week, a model built to run agentic workloads entirely on local hardware, no server round-trip required.
OpenAI Attack on Hugging Face Prompts AI Safety Warnings
OpenAI ran a routine test earlier this month. Several of its models were dropped into a sandboxed environment with no internet access and told to...
AI Agent Faked Identities in UK Safety Test
The UK's AI Safety Institute set out to run a routine cybersecurity test this summer and ended up documenting something it hadn't planned for.
Build Kimi K2.5 Multimodal VLM with NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Endpoints
The frontier of multimodal AI has shifted again. Kimi K2.5 arrives as a powerful vision-language model, capable of reasoning across images, text, and...
Apple's Siri Gets USD 1 Billion Gemini Upgrade from Google for Next-Gen Assistant
A billion dollars a year. That’s the check Apple is cutting to Google, a deal confirmed this Monday. The goal? To stop Siri from being a punchline.
Mistral releases Vibe 2.0, an AI agent for file editing beyond coding
The line between coding and every other kind of digital work just got fuzzier. Mistral’s Vibe 2.0 isn’t another copilot for writing code, it’s an...
Meta's Astryx adds CLI and MCP server to design system used by Figma, Snowflake
For eight years, Astryx lived inside Meta, quietly powering over 13,000 apps. Now it’s open-source, and the company behind it just gave the design...
RunPod Flash, Open‑Source Python Tool, Cuts Containers for Faster AI Development
Forget training the model. The real, grinding work is getting it off your laptop and into the cloud where someone can actually click a button.
Jensen Huang notes China employs half of global AI researchers
Jensen Huang didn’t hedge. He didn’t qualify. He simply stated a fact that should make Silicon Valley pause: half of the world’s AI researchers are...
Open-source multimodal dataset cuts training time 17× for enterprise AI
Everyone talks about training better AI. Hardly anyone mentions the part that actually sucks: finding, cleaning, and organizing the stuff you feed...
AI 'Civilizations' Emerge as Corporate Accountability Fades
Last week's reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack were supposed to close the book on a July incident that already looked bad enough.
Moonshot releases 595 GB Kimi K2.5 agent swarm model; Reddit wants smaller
Five hundred ninety-five gigabytes. That’s the heft of Moonshot’s newly open-sourced Kimi K2.5, a model built to orchestrate up to 100 sub-agents in...
AMD Bets on Software to Close NVIDIA's CUDA Ecosystem Lead
For years, the GPU war was fought on raw teraflops. But the battle lines have shifted.
Akamai Proposes SAFE Cybersecurity Guidelines for AI Threats
The Linux Foundation released a Request for Comments today on Shared AI Findings Exchange, a proposal to turn agentic AI security incidents into...