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Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Flash With 6B Active Params, Undercuts Rivals By 12x — Sep 1, 2026 — The 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates just 6B per token, previews Qwen4 architecture and lists at $0.16 / $0.47 per million tokens.NVIDIA nears $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition — Aug 28, 2026 — NVIDIA is nearing a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-source AI models, in what would be one of the largest AI...Pollen Robotics Opens $399 Microduck Preorders To Bring Reinforcement Learning Home — Aug 27, 2026 — Hugging Face-owned Pollen Robotics opens preorders on August 27 for Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped that walks, roller-skates and lets makers tra...TIER IV Joins Open Invention Network 2.0 To Shield Autoware From Patent Risk — Aug 22, 2026 — Japan's TIER IV, the pioneer behind the open-source Autoware stack for autonomous driving, has joined Open Invention Network 2.0, gaining a royalty-fr...AMD Signs Oxford BOLD Lab MOU, Pledges $6.7M Compute For UK Frontier AI — Aug 21, 2026 — AMD will supply up to £5 million (about $6.7M) in compute over 18 months to the University of Oxford-led British Open-ended Learning and Discovery Lab...Noitom Releases HiPHI, a 617.5-Hour Humanoid Motion Dataset, at WRC 2026 — Aug 20, 2026 — Beijing data startup Noitom Robotics has open-sourced HiPHI, a 617.5-hour, sub-millimeter human motion and object-interaction dataset it says is one o...CISA Adds Ray CVE-2025-62593 to KEV as Browser Attack Chain Hits Devs — Aug 19, 2026 — CISA gave federal agencies until August 20 to patch a critical Ray flaw after Oligo confirmed DNS-rebinding attacks are pushing browser-based RCE onto...Xen Project Launches Safety Committee To Certify Hypervisor For Robots And Cars — Aug 18, 2026 — The Xen Project launched a Safety Committee anchored by AMD, EPAM and Renesas to develop shared engineering artifacts for IEC 61508 certification of i...Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 With Cyber Powers It Didn't Plan — Aug 14, 2026 — Z.ai's GLM-5.3 hits 84.5% on CyberGym vulnerability detection, beating Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, with weights coming after a two-week safety-ha...NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning And NeMo Switchyard For Always-On Agents — Aug 11, 2026 — NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE open model that delivers 4x faster output for long-running agents, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an ope...Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer, A 30B Agent Model For Your Laptop — Aug 11, 2026 — Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight agentic model under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single consumer GPU with...NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super Reasoning Model For Robotaxi Commercial Use — Aug 7, 2026 — NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter open reasoning model for autonomous driving, under a permissive commercial license, ranking #1 on Li...Rails Ships Emergency Patch For Active Storage RCE Flaw CVE-2026-66066 — Aug 3, 2026 — Ruby on Rails ships coordinated 7.2, 8.0 and 8.1 releases fixing a critical Active Storage flaw that lets unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary fil...DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Ships With Codex Support At $0.14 Per Million Tokens — Aug 2, 2026 — DeepSeek's V4-Flash 0731 API entered public beta on 31 July 2026 with a major agent-capability upgrade, native OpenAI Responses API support and full C...NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance With Microsoft, IBM And SpaceX — OpenAI, Anthropic Sit Out — Jul 29, 2026 — NVIDIA on July 27 unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of nearly 40 chip, cloud, cybersecurity and AI companies contributing open-source...Moonshot Pauses New Kimi K3 Subscriptions as GPUs Buckle Under Demand — Jul 21, 2026 — Chinese AI lab Moonshot halted new sign-ups to its 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 two days after launch, saying demand had pushed its GPU capacity to the limi...China Stands Up WAICO In Shanghai, Signing 29 Countries To A Rival AI Bloc — Jul 19, 2026 — On 16 July, 29 nations signed the founding agreement for WAICO in Shanghai, giving China a headquarters and a treaty framework to shape global AI gove...Fireworks Locks In $1.5B Series D At $17.5B Valuation — Jul 17, 2026 — Fireworks AI has closed a $1.505 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures and TCV, with the inference...Moonshot AI Releases 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Kimi K3 Open Model With Delta Attention — Jul 17, 2026 — Beijing's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open Mixture-of-Experts foundation model built on Kimi Delta Attention, on July 16, 2...Nous Research In Talks For $75M Round At $1.5B To Scale Hermes Agent — Jul 15, 2026 — Open-source AI lab Nous Research is finalising a $75M round led by Robot Ventures at a $1.5B valuation to expand its Hermes agent platform.