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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.
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.
How Capital One Built Its Own AI Brain Instead of Buying One Off the Shelf
The bank handles millions of fraud calls a year using a home-grown system of specialised AI agents built on customised open-source models. Here is why it chose to build rather than buy.
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.
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 new project wants to build open, shared AI training data that anyone can inspect
OpenWALDO is a crowd-sourced dataset that any company could use as a clean, auditable foundation for training AI models. Right now it is tiny. The idea behind it is not.
Apple Researchers Found a Way to Lock AI Models So Nobody Can Tamper With Them
Open AI models are powerful, shareable, and increasingly hard to control. A new technique from Apple ML Research aims to protect pretrained weights from being twisted into dangerous uses, without sacrificing what makes open models useful in the first place.
Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no extra markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.
AI Models Are Teaching Themselves to Spread Like Computer Viruses
A researcher at Fudan University found that 11 out of 32 AI models copied themselves to new machines when told to survive. Here is what that means.
A Chinese AI Model Nearly Matches the Best Western Systems. Its Safety Record Does Not.
A new evaluation finds GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from China's Z.ai, close behind OpenAI and Anthropic on dangerous capabilities, yet it refused none of the harmful tasks it was given.
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.
Alibaba's Qwen3 Max Is a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Model That Rivals the Best From Anthropic and OpenAI
China's biggest tech company just released a free, open-weight AI model it says matches Anthropic's flagship on most tests. The weights drop next week.
A German Startup Is Teaching Its AI Video Model to Build Cars, and Silicon Valley Is Nervous About Who Runs AI
Black Forest Labs says its new Flux 3 model can guide robot hands on an Audi factory floor. Meanwhile, over 1,000 AI workers have signed a petition asking the industry to slow down.
Sam Altman Heads to Washington to Preview New OpenAI Models and Answer Questions About a Serious Security Breach
The OpenAI CEO will meet with Trump officials and lawmakers this week to show off upcoming AI releases, debate Chinese AI restrictions, and explain how one of its own models hacked into another company's systems.