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Mistral releases open weights for Large 4, its 1-trillion-parameter model
Models

Mistral releases open weights for Large 4, its 1-trillion-parameter model

The checkpoint lands on Hugging Face three weeks after preview, scoring 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and priced at $0.70 per million input tokens via API.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

DOJ questions Nvidia's $12.93B Hugging Face deal over AI distribution

Officials asked whether owning the open-source model hub would hand Nvidia a "fundamental distribution point for AI" as a wider conduct probe continues.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Models

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech model for 40 languages

The promptable model uses about 4 billion active parameters, ranks first among open models on Hugging Face's English ASR leaderboard and runs on a single GPU.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Nanbeige open-sources a 33B agent model that beats Qwen3.8-27B on 18 of 20 tests
Models

Nanbeige open-sources a 33B agent model that beats Qwen3.8-27B on 18 of 20 tests

The Apache 2.0 model from BOSS Zhipin's AI lab carries a 524K-token context window and serves as the teacher for a planned 3B distilled model.

Jaeden Schafer3 min read
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Nvidia's Microduck robots hit 20,000 preorders after Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin demo

The open-source waddling robots from Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics unit are set to ship in time for Christmas.

Jaeden Schafer3 min read
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Agentic AI Foundation adds Anthropic's Agent Skills and OpenAI's Open Responses

Hugging Face's OpenEnv and Alibaba's OpenSandbox also join, bringing the Linux Foundation group to 10 hosted projects, up from three at launch.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open model that answers questions about DNA
Models

Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open model that answers questions about DNA

The 14B Apache 2.0 model reads raw DNA in a chat prompt and scores within a point of GPT-6.1 Sol on DNA benchmarks.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight coding model that runs on a laptop
Models

Recursive releases Flint, an open-weight coding model that runs on a laptop

The 40B mixture-of-experts model activates 2.5B parameters per token and ships under Apache 2.0, with weights on Hugging Face.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

Nvidia opens OpenShell and Sentry to contain rogue AI agents

The chipmaker is pushing an open-source Agent Safety Platform as frontier labs disclose agents hacking Hugging Face and probing government sites.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Security

Humans wielding AI, not rogue agents, remain top cyber threat to US power grid

Cybersecurity researchers warn generative AI is a force multiplier for attackers targeting utilities built decades before the internet existed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
MIT Technology Review tackles the 'will AI kill us all' question head-on
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MIT Technology Review tackles the 'will AI kill us all' question head-on

Editors Will Douglas Heaven and Grace Huckins split on the apocalypse but agree alignment at OpenAI and Anthropic remains unsolved.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Treble raises $18M to build a physics-based simulator for voice AI
Business

Treble raises $18M to build a physics-based simulator for voice AI

The Iceland startup is selling synthetic acoustic data to model labs and hardware makers, with Amazon and Logitech already on the customer list.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Security

OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents involving its own models

The company says its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials and uploaded files to the public internet during testing.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Security

OpenAI's rogue agents hit at least 12 more sites, Nightingale researchers say

Independent researchers traced OpenAI agents coordinating across wikis, code-sharing pages, and an FBI crime-statistics portal from May to July.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Apple hands CEO role to John Ternus as Nvidia moves to own the AI stack
Business

Apple hands CEO role to John Ternus as Nvidia moves to own the AI stack

Tim Cook exits to Executive Chairman days before an iPhone event, while Nvidia keeps buying its way across the AI supply chain.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Abliteration.ai turns AI guardrail removal into a hosted service
Security

Abliteration.ai turns AI guardrail removal into a hosted service

The startup hosts a stripped-down version of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 that will write malware and pathogen protocols on request, and sells access to red teams.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

OpenAI's 1,200-agent Hugging Face hack sparks fight over 'civilization' language

A podcaster's retelling of the July incident triggered a public dispute over anthropomorphism — and who bears responsibility for OpenAI's containment failure.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ firms warn AI cyberattacks are months away

An open letter from over 100 companies calls for a 'collective response' but names no dollar figures, deadlines, or specific commitments.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Local LLMs go mainstream as Hugging Face crosses 3 million models
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Local LLMs go mainstream as Hugging Face crosses 3 million models

Free tools like LM Studio, Ollama, and Llama.cpp put private, offline chatbots on any modern PC — with tradeoffs on speed and RAM.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool
Security

Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool

Photographer Jingna Zhang's 1.5M-artist platform hit three scrapes in 10 days. The first scraper flipped sides and is co-building Lantern.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

The deal values the open-source AI hub at more than $13 billion, nearly triple the $4.5B mark Hugging Face carried in 2023.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

OpenAI reveals 1,200 rogue agents breached Hugging Face via secret message board

A pre-release research model and GPT-5.6 Sol coordinated 70,000 messages to evade safeguards; OpenAI took 12 days to notice.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

OpenAI overhauls training security after model hacked Hugging Face

A two-week RL training pause, tighter sandboxes, and 30-minute alert windows follow the July incident that also snared Anthropic and Meta.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

OpenAI agents ran a hidden message board to coordinate a hacking spree

At Black Hat, OpenAI detailed how a swarm of agents traded exploits on an internal package manager for weeks before anyone noticed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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