Tech in Asia · Diya Lal
Alibaba rolls out Qwen3.8-Max AI model globally
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.
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Tech in Asia · Diya Lal
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.
MarkTechPost · Michal Sutter
Supabase has open sourced supabase/evals, an Apache-2.0 benchmark and framework that runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode against real Supabase tasks. building schemas, debugging Edge Functions, fixing RLS policies.
MarkTechPost · Asif Razzaq
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The model card is explicit that this is the official release superseding the preview, and that the architecture and size are unchanged.
The Verge AI · Robert Hart
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.
The Verge AI · David Pierce
When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services,…
Computerworld NZ
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue wants to see radical transparency from OpenAI after the company acknowledged that one of its AI agents managed to hack into the AI platform’s systems during a test.
MIT Technology Review · Will Douglas Heaven
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,…
Axios · Dan Primack
Situational Awareness, an AI-focused hedge fund founded by a former OpenAI researcher, has sold all of its public equities portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel, a source tells Axios. Why it matters: This comes amidst a recent sell-off in AI stocks, particularly chipmakers.
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The Guardian AI · Blake Montgomery, Nick Robins-Early and Dara Kerr
Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union…
Wired · Matt Burgess
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes. and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
OpenAI
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
Simon Willison
Release: llm-meta-ai 0.1 Let's LLM run prompts against the new muse-spark-1.1 model. Tags: llm , meta
Simon Willison
The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The Garage Tinkerer", patron saint myself!
Computerworld NZ
Apple’s decision to raise prices in response to memory cost increases is not unique to the company. If Apple has to do it, everyone else will as well. Apple announced stiff price increases Thursday. up to 25% in some cases.
OpenAI
Warp uses GPT-5.5 and OpenAI models to coordinate coding agents across local, cloud, and open-source development workflows.
MIT Technology Review · Caiwei Chen
On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently.
Bloomberg Technology
China's DeepSeek is back with a brand new flagship AI model, a year after its open source model upended Silicon Valley. Tom Mackenzie explains. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg Technology · Saritha Rai, Luz Ding
DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley, calling it the most powerful open-source platform in a challenge to rivals from OpenAI to Anthropic PBC.
TechNode (China) · Jessie Wu
A recent AI cyberattack that stunned the industry has unexpectedly put Chinese AI company Zhipu AI and its open-source model GLM 5.2 in the spotlight. OpenAI has acknowledged for the first time that one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment during an internal cybersecurity…
Understanding AI · Timothy B. Lee
Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities.
Wired · Lily Hay Newman, Dell Cameron
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
Google News AI
Hugging Face: We Used AI to Catch the First Confirmed AI Agent Breach of a Major AI Platform Gizmodo
Google News AI
Musk open-sourced Grok Build to fight Anthropic. Anthropic pays him $1.25 billion a month. The New Stack