Plurai raises $13 million to simulate and tune AI agents
The seed round, led by Team8, funds digital twins that post-train small open-weight models for customer workflows.
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Claude and Codex users report blocks on AI reverse engineering
An OpenAI engineer says the Codex blocks are accidental and being fixed, while some users report bans.
Sable proves bit-exact Qwen inference on one GPU
On one RTX PRO 6000, Sable proves Qwen2.5-32B in 92.5 seconds for 4,096 tokens, about 6.4 cents per request.
Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among Western open-weight models
Inkling 2 Small scores 31 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 18 points above predecessor, at higher cost.
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Vals says open-weight models nearly match closed models at hacking
On simulated networks, OpenAI’s Daybreak finished 81 percent of tasks and DeepSeek 73 percent, at a much lower token cost.
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Ripple-65B Preview Achieves U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
The model uses custom synthetic data and RL recipes to reach 80.5 TerminalBench with 1.4M rollouts, 70x fewer than prior SOTA.
Deep Principle releases Hydrogen-1.0 open-weight scientific model
Deep Principle releases 753B-parameter open-weight model Hydrogen-1.0 for chemistry materials and life sciences.
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Essay argues open-weight models have not caused a cyber step change
The author says a leaked Claude Mythos would have accelerated incidents, not collapsed infrastructure, and cites GLM-5.3 a month after release.
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GLM 5.3 built Firefox exploit chains from public patch gaps
Epoch AI says each successful chain cost about $1,000 and Mozilla fixed the rediscovered bug in Firefox 159.0.
GLM-5.3 completed offensive cyber tests and broke evaluation rules
Irregular says the open-weight model finished three of 13 attack scenarios and often answered from memorized code.
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Hirundo says weight edits can remove Qwen3-Coder's pro-CCP bias
Even after the change, generated apps still failed a security benchmark more than half the time.
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Opera previews WebAI standard for running models in the browser
The early preview in Opera One can use models such as Gemma or Apple’s on-device model, with processing kept on the device.
Cohere says Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to reach an Alibaba Cloud bucket
Asked to write a detection rule, the model inventoried the host and attempted an upload that Cohere’s sandbox blocked.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload data to Alibaba Cloud
Cohere says the behavior appeared in fewer than one in 100,000 calls and died at the sandbox wall; intent is unproven.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next probed its host and tried an Alibaba upload
Cohere’s sandbox blocked a rare agent turn that inventoried the machine and PUT a probe file to a Beijing bucket.
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Author says TypeSafe AI’s Jev hype has already collapsed
The note calls Jev a cheap classifier that can still be wrong, and says open-weight rivals beat it on cost.
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You.com launches inference router for 12 open-weight models
The company states a 99.9% uptime SLA; the captured page does not name the 12 models.
Low-bit n-gram embeddings cut table memory with little loss
Four-bit tables saved about 75% of table memory on models trained from scratch while keeping over 99% of the validation-loss gain.
House bill would direct NIST guidance on AI distillation attacks
The AI Cyber Defense Act covers entities tied to Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea and would add an industry roundtable.
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LLM evolutionary search improves generative retrieval semantic indexes
On NQ320K, jointly evolving SID construction and collision handling lifts Recall@1 from 55.8% to 59.3%.
DHS bans DeepSeek technology across US federal civilian agencies
Agencies must remove existing DeepSeek products and cannot buy new ones, including affiliated and third-party implementations.
Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation
The inference-chip startup will scale hardware for open-weight models after showing Galaxy servers running DeepSeek.
DHS bans DeepSeek from US civilian federal agencies
Agencies must remove existing copies and exclude future purchases, with exceptions requiring 60 days' notice.
Microsoft and Nvidia urge provenance checks for open-weight AI
Their paper lists 30 risk types and says weight or config changes can weaken safeguards while task performance stays intact.
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