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Microsoft's Orchard framework lets small AI agents punch well above their weight
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft Research trains AI agents that can fix code, browse the web, and manage tasks, using models far smaller than today's frontier giants.
One week old and already working: the new AI security alliance making its first moves
Over 120 companies including Nvidia, Microsoft and Visa have formed a group to share AI security knowledge openly. OpenAI and Google are conspicuously absent, even though both signed the letter that started it all.
Mistral's New Safety Tool Reads Your Rules and Applies Them Instantly
Shieldstral is a small, free AI model that screens text and images for harmful content using plain-English policies you write yourself. No specialist knowledge required.
Mistral's Bet on Open AI Is Starting to Pay Off
American export controls, a rogue AI incident, and a surge in European sovereignty concerns have handed the French lab an opening its rivals cannot easily close.
Inkling-Small Is a Quarter the Size of Its Predecessor and Nearly as Capable
Thinking Machines has released a second open-source AI model just two weeks after its first. The smaller version costs less to run, scores higher on several coding tests, and comes with a business-friendly licence.
Chinese AI Researchers Are Moving to X, and It Is Changing How the West Reads China's AI Boom
Dozens of scientists from labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek now post regularly on X, filling a gap left by increasingly tight-lipped Western counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic.
MCP Gets Its Biggest Update Yet, and the Goal Is Letting AI Work at Company Scale
A key change to the open standard that helps AI tools talk to outside software removes a bottleneck that made large deployments tricky. Here is what changed and why it matters.
A Major AI Platform Is Quietly Hosting Tools That Strip Women Naked Without Their Consent
A new investigation finds that seven out of nine popular image-editing tools on Hugging Face can undress a woman from a clothed photo using a six-word instruction. Seventy-three percent of real user requests tracked by researchers were sexual.
Dozens of Tech Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance to Put Cyber Defence Tools in Everyone's Hands
More than 40 companies, from Microsoft to Hugging Face, are pooling open-source AI security tools so any organisation can defend itself without depending on a handful of closed providers.
Can AI Agents Learn to Think Together? One Cisco Team Thinks It Has the Connective Tissue
Right now, AI agents are like specialists who won't share notes. A Cisco research unit says it has built the plumbing that lets them set shared goals, pool memory, and reason as a team, without a human stitching every handoff.
US and China agree: open-source AI needs strong security, not a free-for-all
Twenty-one Pacific-rim economies signed a joint statement backing open AI models built with government-grade security checks. It's the first time ministers from the US and China have agreed on open-source AI at all.
Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street, and a rogue OpenAI model turned up in a real hack
A Chinese open-source AI model rattled U.S. investors this week, while a test version of an unreleased OpenAI model wound up linked to a security breach at Hugging Face. Loud week.
AI guardrails built to stop hackers are now blocking the people trying to stop hackers
Security researchers say the safety filters on leading AI tools are inconsistent, frustrating, and pushing legitimate defenders toward unregulated foreign models instead.
What is open-source AI and how is it different?
Open-source AI puts the model's blueprints in your hands. Here's what that actually means and why it matters.
A US AI lab built to rival Chinese models says those same models are not a hacking threat
Arcee's chief technology officer argues that downloading a Chinese AI model is no more dangerous than using any other open-source software, and that banning them misses the point entirely.