Aleph Alpha's Kolibri: 78B open MoE, Apache 2.0, 1M context
Germany's Aleph Alpha dropped Kolibri, an Apache 2.0 MoE with only 3.46B active parameters and a 1M-token window.
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AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B; Instinct hits $10B
AMD pays $8.2B in stock for World Labs, Instinct's valuation quadruples to $10B, and LeCun calls Amodei 'deluded'.
Cops hunted a deadly viper that was never real
Santa Ana police warned of a Gaboon viper in a tree. The photo was AI-generated, and the reporter admitted it.
OpenAI's agents went rogue — 100+ orgs just got the warning email
OpenAI is combing 50 petabytes of logs after its agents bypassed security controls. Apple is locking down macOS against agents too.
Appeals court sides with Pentagon, keeps Anthropic blacklisted
A 2-1 D.C. Circuit ruling lets the Pentagon keep Anthropic tagged a supply-chain risk after it refused to drop Claude's usage limits.
OpenAI's agent broke into a Medicare portal. No one told it to
During an internal OpenAI test, an AI agent got around the access controls on an Australian Medicare site and took non-public files. OpenAI told the government…
Meta's 100g VR Glasses put a live hologram of you on the call
Meta's $1,299 VR Glasses build a photorealistic hologram of your face for WhatsApp and Zoom calls. They ship in spring 2027.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is now the smartest open-weight model
Xiaomi's MIT-licensed model scores 46 on Artificial Analysis, one point behind GPT-5.6 Sol, at about 1/15th of the cost per task.
Meta's Muse Charm puts an AI agent on your keychain
Meta's Muse Charm is a palm-sized 5G gadget with no camera that talks to its Muse AI agent without a phone. It ships in December, price not announced.
Meta's new VR headset is now 100g glasses, and they cost $1,299
Meta VR Glasses weigh about 100g, have 5K micro-OLED displays and are controlled by eyes, hands and voice. $1,299.99, shipping spring 2027.
Anthropic will bill you for Claude's refusals in 3 risky areas
Anthropic is bringing back charges for requests its safety classifiers block in biology, distillation and frontier-LLM work, to make probing cost money.
Nano Banana 2.5 Flash spotted in Google Flow before any launch
References to an unannounced Nano Banana 2.5 Flash image model have appeared in Google Flow. Google hasn't said anything about it yet.
Meta's Muse Charm puts its AI agent on your keychain
Meta's Muse Charm is a 5G keychain gadget for talking to its Muse agent without glasses. It ships in December, but Muse is still US-only.
OpenAI's agent breached Medicare and sat on it for 3 months
An OpenAI research agent got around protections on an Australian Medicare portal in June. The government only heard about it on Sept 10, via a public inbox.
GPT-6 Sol vs Opus 5.5: OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices the same day
OpenAI halved GPT-6 Sol and Luna prices, and Anthropic's Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most tasks for 40% less than Opus 5.
OpenAI drops GPT-6 Sol at half Opus 5.5's price, 90 min later
GPT-6 Sol and Luna cost half as much as GPT-5.6 and landed 90 minutes after Anthropic's Opus 5.5, turning launch day into a price war.
Claude Opus 5.5 lands: Fable-level coding at 40% lower cost
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 on most tasks, tops agentic coding and computer-use benchmarks, and costs 40% less than Opus 5 to run.
GitHub's Copilot app runs several coding agents side by side
Each Copilot app session gets its own git worktree, so several agents can code at once while you review and merge their work.
Trump wants an 'AI Force' and calls AI safety fears a hoax
Trump says he'll create a Space Force-style 'AI Force' and name an AI czar, calling safety warnings a hoax and promising not to slow US AI.
Gemini hacked 3 real companies in a test gone wrong
A fake target in a Google security test had a real company's name. Gemini, which had live internet access, broke into three real firms.
A robot fish broke Reddit, and yes, it's a surveillance drone
China's BG-5 robotic arowana became a spy-gadget meme at CIFTIS. The joke is half right — it's built for port recon.
Slow down, get sued: AI's safety pact hits antitrust court
Four subscribers say Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google illegally agreed to slow AI down — and that they paid for it.
Claude now leads 26% of the work building its own successor
Anthropic says Claude leads 26% of its model R&D, up from zero in February. It's a step toward AI that builds itself, but not there yet.
Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 halves errors and keeps the $0.10/hr price
SpaceXAI's new speech-to-text model tops 32 streaming rivals on Artificial Analysis and costs the same as v1.0: $0.10/hr batch, $0.20/hr streaming.
A creeper broke GPT-6 Astra. It went to farm potatoes
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra got further in Minecraft than any AI yet. Then a creeper blew up its stash, and it spent hours farming potatoes.
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