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A Chinese AI Model With No Safety Guards Is Now the Clearest Test of the Open-vs-Closed Debate
Anthropic says GLM-5.3, a freely downloadable model from China's Z.ai, can build working cyberattacks with almost no friction. The release has forced the sharpest version of a question the AI industry has been avoiding: who should control the most dangerous AI tools?
Liquid AI Releases Two Open-Weight Decision Models That Answer in Under 50 Milliseconds on Edge Hardware
The d1-3B and d1-omni-600M models skip word-by-word generation and return structured answers in a single calculation, fast enough to run on a $250 Jetson Orin Nano board.
Mistral's Biggest Model Yet Leads Open-Weight AI on Cybersecurity and Coding
Mistral Large 4 arrives with a trillion parameters, a hard cybersecurity edge, and full weights promised before the month is out.
Liquid AI's vision model gets a speed boost of up to 3.13 times with no change to what it says
A 280-million-parameter add-on lets LFM2.5-VL-3B generate text up to 3.13 times faster on Apple silicon, leaving output word-for-word identical.
Nvidia's New Open Model Figures Out Who Said What in a Crowd
Nemotron 3 Diarization tracks up to eight speakers at once, ranks first on an independent benchmark, and is free to download. Here is what it does and why it matters.
Moonshot AI wants $2 billion in revenue by year-end, even as it faces theft allegations
The Chinese lab behind the Kimi chatbot is chasing a revenue target double its August run rate. The ambition arrives the same week Anthropic accused it of secretly feeding millions of user queries through Claude.
Paying for a frontier AI model now buys you about four months of advantage
A new Mozilla report puts hard numbers on the gap between the priciest closed AI and the best free-to-download models. For most everyday work, the gap is shrinking fast.
I Turned a Guardrail-Free AI Loose on My Home Network. Here Is What It Found.
A writer let an unrestricted AI security agent scan his own devices. It broke into a Linux PC, exposed a misconfigured printer, and then walked him through every fix.
A startup is selling stripped-down AI with no guardrails. Anyone can sign up for free.
Abliteration.ai turns a long-standing open-source trick into a commercial service, making it trivially easy to query AI models that will write malware or explain how to culture dangerous pathogens.
A Russian Maths Startup Found a Way for AI Models to Share Intelligence Without Swapping Words
Mostik, a small team of mathematicians, built a technique that lets two AI systems pool their abilities at a fraction of the usual cost. Think of it as a shortcut that makes a cheap, compact model punch well above its weight.
Faster cancer-slide AI cuts computing cost by 50 times, Microsoft Research says
Two new open-weight models shrink the hardware needed to scan thousands of cancer tissue slides, bringing large-scale pathology research within reach of labs that can't afford supercomputer budgets.
A mystery Chinese AI model spent a week fooling the internet. Now it wants 45% of your AI budget.
GLM-5.3-Flash launched anonymously, served trillions of tokens for free on Chinese chips, and costs a fraction of US rivals. That combination is forcing companies to rethink what they actually need to pay for.
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.
Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.
Mistral AI Partners With Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN in a Deal Worth Hundreds of Millions of Euros
The French AI company will help build Arabic-language models and sovereign AI infrastructure across the Middle East, starting with cybersecurity and voice applications.