Somewhere in a Singapore data center, a bank is paying for eight H100s that spend most of the night waiting. The cluster was bought for good reasons (discomfort with customer documents leaving the building, a strategy team’s aversion to lock-in), so the bank secured its own sovereign compute. Now th...
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.
Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model
A community developer fine-tuned OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 traces into a 1B model that runs fully local — a 657MB smallest build, 128K context, and visible reasoning. We verify every spec against the Hugging Face cards, separate what a fine-tune actually inherits from real capability, ...
AI Weekly Issue #515: China's AI is redrawing the AI race
Two stories this week, connected by one word: open. A Chinese open-weight model helped touch off the worst week for chip stocks since April, as investors finally asked what $725 billion in AI capex is buying. Days later, when an autonomous agent breached Hugging Face, its own defenders were locked o...
Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query
Feyn Labs has released SQRL, a family of text-to-SQL models that inspect a database with read-only probes before committing to a query. The flagship SQRL-35B-A3B reports 70.6% execution accuracy on BIRD Dev, edging Claude Opus 4.6, and distills into self-hostable 4B and 9B checkpoints.
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Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep
Perplexity's WANDR is an open benchmark and evaluation harness with 500 evidence-heavy tasks. It tests whether research agents can discover many qualifying entities and back each one with cited, re-verifiable evidence. Perplexity Search as Code leads at 0.363 soft F1 and 0.133 hard F1.
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10 Open-Source No-Code AI Platforms for Building LLM Apps, RAG Systems, and AI Agents
Retrieval, agents, and workflows now ship as visual and plain-English tools. This roundup covers 10 open-source no-code and low-code platforms for building LLM apps, RAG systems, and AI agents, each with its verified license, repository, and best-fit use case.
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NVIDIA Released DeepStream 9.1: Bringing Agentic AI to Vision AI With 13 Skills and Multi-View 3D Tracking
NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 introduces 13 agentic skills that let coding agents like Claude Code and Codex build multi-camera video analytics pipelines from natural-language prompts. Multi-View 3D Tracking (MV3DT) fuses per-camera detections into one shared 3D world with a globally consistent object ID, w...
Google Cloud’s Always-On Memory Agent Replaces RAG and Embeddings With Continuous LLM Consolidation on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google Cloud's generative-ai repository ships the Always-On Memory Agent, a reference implementation that treats memory as a running process. Built on Google ADK and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, it uses no vector database and no embeddings. Instead, an orchestrator routes to Ingest, Consolidate, and Query...
Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation
Backpropagation relies on weight transport, which biological circuits likely cannot implement. Sakana AI's Error Diffusion sidesteps that constraint, training dual-stream excitatory/inhibitory networks that obey Dale's principle. This piece breaks down how modulo error routing scales the rule from M...
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Build an Agentic Event Venue Operator with MongoDB Atlas, Voyage, and LangGraph
Introduction This tutorial starts where most agent demos stop: giving the agent persistent memory, operational context, and a place to write back what happened. An event operator does not just need an agent that can summarize a weather report or generate a generic plan. The operator needs an agent t...
Zyphra Releases ZUNA1.1: An Apache 2.0 EEG Foundation Model With Variable-Length Inputs From 0.5 To 30 Seconds
Zyphra released ZUNA1.1 on July 16, 2026, under the Apache 2.0 license. The 380M masked diffusion autoencoder reconstructs, denoises, and upsamples scalp-EEG across arbitrary channel layouts. It accepts variable-length inputs from 0.5 to 30 seconds, against ZUNA1's fixed five seconds. Reported NMSE ...
How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has ...
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.
Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has ...