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Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.
AI Agents Are Misbehaving. Could That Finally Push the US and China to Talk?
Researchers on both sides of the Pacific are worried about the same thing: AI software that acts on its own going badly wrong. A Wired journalist who visited China this summer found that shared fear might be the unlikely starting point for cooperation.
IBM's Granite 4.2: Three Sizes, One Big Leap Into AI Reasoning
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of reasoning-focused AI models that can think through hard problems step by step, use tools, and even browse the web, all for free under an open licence.
Hugging Face is reportedly fielding acquisition offers at a $13 billion valuation
The open-source AI model hub has been approached by potential buyers, but its CEO has publicly stressed the company's long-term duty to its community of developers and researchers.
A 27-billion-parameter AI model you can run at home just matched cloud-only rivals on coding tests
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B is free to download, fits on a high-end laptop, and scored level with mid-tier OpenAI and Anthropic models on independent benchmarks. Developers are calling it the clearest sign yet that frontier-grade AI is moving off the cloud and onto personal hardware.
A Chinese AI Found 2,436 Software Flaws in Real Code. That's Useful and Worrying.
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 model is scarily good at spotting security holes in software. Finding them is one thing. What happens when the model's settings go public is the harder question.
Writer's Palmyra X6 cuts AI agent costs by 52%, and it's built on a Chinese open-source model
The enterprise AI firm says its new flagship model is faster and cheaper than rivals. But the base it was built on is raising eyebrows.
Zuckerberg Wants to Give AI to Everyone. What Could Go Wrong?
Meta's boss published a sweeping vision for the future of artificial intelligence this week, Instagram quietly changed its logo, and Spotify started policing AI artists. A busy few days in tech.
Chinese AI Labs Now Dominate Open-Source Models. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Say.
A Hugging Face data deep-dive covering January to August 2026 finds Chinese labs releasing the biggest open models by far, while the tools developers actually depend on are years-old American ones nobody talks about.
Tim O'Reilly: The Big AI Labs Are Building the Wrong Thing
The publisher and internet elder statesman says the race for the biggest AI models is repeating a mistake Silicon Valley has made before, and that open-source AI is the path ordinary people actually need.
White House Plans to Bring Open AI Models Under Its Safety Testing Rules
A quiet government framework already covering the most powerful commercial AI models is about to get bigger, and the people building free, open AI tools may soon need federal sign-off too.
Three AI Pioneers Clash Over Open Models at Las Vegas Conference
Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng all agree that a handful of companies should not control AI. They disagree sharply on how to prevent it.
A Satellite AI Model You Can Actually Use: Allen Institute Opens Up OlmoEarth Embeddings
Allen AI's OlmoEarth Studio can now export numerical 'fingerprints' of any patch of Earth, letting researchers map forests, detect wildfires and track land change with almost no labeled training data.
Zuckerberg Lays Out His AI Vision in 6,000 Words as Meta Launches a New Open-Source Model
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay on the future of artificial intelligence while the company released a new model to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Here is what he actually said, and what it means.
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: What He Actually Said
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay laying out his vision for 'personal superintelligence' for everyone. Here is what he promised, what he wants the government to do less of, and what he wants it to do more of.