Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
Cursor Open-Sources Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK): A Deterministic MoE Training Megakernel for GB300 NVL72 Racks
Cursor Research has open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), the MoE training megakernel behind its Composer models. MoK fuses all mixture-of-experts communication and computation into a single deterministic kernel, and runs up to 2.37x faster than the strongest public baseline on GB300 NVL72 racks. I...
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring ...
This chapter is divided into eight parts; they are: • Metrics for LLM Inference • Measuring a Single Request • Warmup and Synchronization • Measuring GPU Work with CUDA Events • Measuring Memory Usage • Measuring Concurrent Requests • Multiple GPUs and Multiple Machines • Cost per Token The most com...
Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive
Reflex has released XY, an Apache-2.0 Python charting library that moves rendering work into a native Rust core and a WebGL2 client. It holds roughly 0.08 seconds render time from 10,000 to 100 million points, exports a 10-million-point interactive scatter at 258 KiB, and keeps exact f64 columns in ...
Building an Advanced AI Skill Security Auditing Pipeline with NVIDIA SkillSpector, LangGraph, YARA Rules, SARIF, and CI Policy Gates
Learn how to build an end-to-end security assessment pipeline for AI agent skills using NVIDIA SkillSpector and LangGraph. In this tutorial, we construct a synthetic skill marketplace, scan for malicious prompt injection, credential access, and risky dependencies, and implement custom YARA rules, ba...
Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licensed Multiplayer Agent Harness That Runs In Slack And The Web
Y Combinator has open-sourced QM, the multiplayer agent harness it uses internally across accounting, legal, events, and engineering. Released July 31, 2026 under an MIT license, QM gives each employee an isolated workspace and each Slack room its own scoped memory, files, keychain view, permissions...
Genspark Open Sources GenOffice: A Free, Ad-Free AI Office Suite for macOS and Windows with Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF
Genspark has open sourced GenOffice under the Apache License 2.0. It is an AI-native office suite for macOS and Windows, covering Docs, Sheets, Slides and PDF as five Electron apps over one shared engine layer. The notable engineering claim is a byte-preserving round trip: only edited paragraphs are...
Evaluating Multimodal Vision Models with Moonshot PerceptionBench Using Robust Data Loading and Automated Judging
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end evaluation workflow for PerceptionBench. This multimodal benchmark measures fine-grained visual perception capabilities across tasks such as OCR, counting, localization, contextual reasoning, comparison, depth understanding, and hallucination detection. We b...
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big
AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.
House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
This chapter is divided into nine parts; they are: • Reading Logits from a Model • Greedy Decoding • Temperature Sampling • Top-$k$ Sampling • Nucleus Sampling • Repetition Penalties • Beam Search • Stop Conditions • Structured Output Constraints The model returns a vector of logits for every positi...
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
Alibaba's Qwen team moved Qwen3.8-Max from preview to general availability, with published per-token pricing and open weights due next week. The 2.4T parameter MoE model accepts text, image and video input across a 1M-token context. No benchmark table has been published.
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Cogent AI Team Releases VR-1: A Frontier Cyber Reasoning Model That Composes and Verifies Enterprise Attack Paths
Cogent AI team released Cogent VR-1, a reasoning model post-trained specifically for cybersecurity rather than picking up cyber capability as a side effect of general coding strength. It ships with two companions: IntrusionBench, a benchmark that scores agents on completed enterprise intrusions, and...
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model
Inkling-Small matches Inkling at a quarter the size, and its NVFP4 checkpoint runs on one NVIDIA B300 GPU
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