Models

The Qwen family had nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads and more than 50% of global open-source AI downloads by early 2026, according to a report.

Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, has released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product search.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic’s Fable.

Pershing Square Signature Center, New York John David Washington leads an exceptionally talented cast in a sleek off-Broadway thriller that feels a little dated Making its US debut three years after its London premiere, Andrew Stein’s Disruption faces the typical battle of the topical play: even…

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Agentic RL research is constant algorithm modification, and in mainstream frameworks every change threads through trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue. NVIDIA's Molt targets that cost with about 8.6K lines of RL code, composing Ray, vLLM, and NeMo AutoModel around one asynchronous loop.

Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code. the latest sign that some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity.

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it ahead of MiniMax M3 - a 428B model.

Walking around Dubai, it’s hard to believe a war is still going on in neighboring countries. No missiles have struck the city, and it was clear during a recent visit that local residents are keeping to their routines.

Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing.

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza.

U.S. lawmakers request information from DoorDash on use of Chinese AI models CNBC

Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/31/2026 - 09:00 From 2 August 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office, together with national authorities, will begin enforcing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.

All of the major AI providers want you to use, and ideally stay within, their super apps, and now Microsoft is looking to capture that attention, too. During an earnings call this week, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the tech giant is building a Copilot ‘super app’ that will be rolled out this…

Some of Anthropic's most powerful models. including Mythos 5 and an internal research model. gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during pre-deployment cybersecurity testing, the company said Thursday.

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month.

AI Worming through Word Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-replicating worms: An attacker places hidden instructions in a document that is later used as source material in Copilot for Word.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce.

Applications are open for the Google Africa Applied AI Lab, which aims to provide AI entrepreneurs and researchers with technical support and early access to Google AI models.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company,…

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Punchbowl News tech reporter Diego Munhoz about President Trump's request for AI companies to share models with the government before their public release.

The company’s pricing changes come as AI vendors increasingly compete on cost, speed and performance.

OpenAI said the lower Luna and Terra pricing will also reduce how many credits those models use in Codex and ChatGPT Work.