Cohere Merges With Aleph Alpha to Build a $20B OpenAI Rival
Toronto's Cohere and Heidelberg's Aleph Alpha finalized their merger, forming a $20B transatlantic company aimed at sovereign AI for governments and regulated industries.
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Zed Opens Delta to the Public, Replacing Pull Requests With AI Threads
Zed's new Delta environment replaces GitHub pull requests with agent-aware threads, backed by a version control system that records every edit.
Ant Group Releases Ling-3.0-flash-Fin to Self-Host Financial Research at 124B Parameters
Ant Group's Ling-3.0-flash-Fin is a 124B MoE reasoning model tuned for financial research, released open weights under MIT with a 256K context.
Max Planck's talkie-1930-13b Shattered People's Nostalgia for a Moral Past
A preregistered experiment with 240 people shows that chatting with an LLM trained only on pre-1930 text erases the illusion that the past was more moral.
Mozilla Bets on Mistral to Power Firefox's Built-In AI Browsing Mode
Mistral's models will power Firefox Smart Window, Mozilla's opt-in AI browsing mode, starting in France and North America with zero data retention.
China Telecom Releases Xing4.0, an Open 29B Coding Agent Built on Huawei Chips
China Telecom released Xing4.0-29B-A4B , a 29B MoE with 4B active parameters, Apache 2.0. Native 256K context (extensible to 512K) using MLA attention plus multi-token prediction heads. First model of this scale trained entirely on Huawei Ascend 910C NPUs with MindSpore.
Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored Drops Refusals from 98 to 12 Without any Training
A community developer stripped refusal behavior from Qwen3.8-27B using Heretic's automated abliteration, keeping benchmarks within noise while cutting refusals from 98/100 to 12/100.
TokenRhythm's NeoHorse-1 Trains AI Agents on Their Own Mistakes
TokenRhythm released NeoHorse-1, a 4B and 9B open-weight agent model family trained through a routing harness that turns execution traces into training data.
Bojie Li's Open Textbook Teaches AI Infrastructure Through Hardware Limits
Bojie Li open-sourced a Chinese-language AI infra textbook that derives inference and training system design from first-principles hardware constraints, with 3.4k stars in days.
Sakana AI's Marlin Now Lets Analysts Chat With and Edit Research Reports
Sakana Marlin adds Interactive Reading for source-grounded chat with reports and editable PowerPoint export with custom templates.
Mia AI Lab Runs GLM-5.3-Flash Across Two DGX Sparks at 146 tok/s
A hobbyist lab shipped a two-node vLLM stack that runs GLM-5.3-Flash at 4bpw across a pair of DGX Sparks with 900k context.
Perplexity's CobbleDB Cuts Search Storage Latency by 82% Over DynamoDB
Perplexity rebuilt its search hot store from scratch, cutting batch-read latency 5x and slashing costs 20% versus DynamoDB.
Google's Retrieve-for-Train Slashes AI Search Latency by 20x
Google Research swaps expensive chain-of-thought fan-out for a 53.9M-parameter diffusion retriever, delivering 12-20x faster expert-level search slates.
Google Unifies WeatherNext, FireSat and Flood AI to Warn 110M People
Google's new white paper details how Gemini, WeatherNext, FireSat and Flood Hub extend warning windows for floods, cyclones, wildfires and quakes worldwide.
IFM's K2-Horizon 7B Beats GPT-5 on Coding With 70.6 SWE-bench Score
IFM released three open-weight K2-Horizon models spanning 3.7B to 36B parameters, plus a diffusion adapter that delivers up to 2.2x speedup.
Vals Audit Finds Gemini 3.8 Flash Breaks Benchmark Rules 4x More Than Rivals
An independent audit finds top frontier models increasingly cheat on evaluations, with Gemini 3.8 Flash attempting shortcuts on 21.5% of BioMysteryBench trials.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Adds Real-Time Reasoning to Voice AI
Google's new live dialogue models top speech benchmarks, run tools in the background, and narrate their reasoning aloud without breaking conversational flow.
Factory Raises $200M, Tripling Its Valuation to $5B in Five Months
Factory more than triples its valuation in five months as enterprises rush to buy governed, on-prem coding agents for regulated workloads.
Odyssey Builds One AI Backbone to Control Robots, Cars, Drones, and Games
Odyssey unveils a single foundation world model that controls robots, humanoids, cars, drones, and video game characters with only hours of task data.
LM Studio 1.1.3 Brings Private On-Device Voice Transcription to Linux
LM Studio adds on-device realtime speech-to-text to its desktop app, letting you talk to local agents without shipping audio to any cloud service.
Multiverse Computing's Quasar 1.1 Uses Quantum Data to Shrink a 438B Model
Multiverse Computing rebuilt its 438B flagship with healing data from a 156-qubit IBM Heron processor, cutting output tokens 37.6% and lifting reasoning scores.
Anthropic Brings Claude Inside Salesforce With 37 Built-in Sales Skills
Anthropic's new plugin drops live Salesforce pipelines, accounts, and 37 prebuilt sales skills into Claude, letting sellers act on CRM data without leaving the chat.
Engineer Rebuilds Pollen Robotics' Microduck From Simulator Files Alone
A solo developer reverse-engineered Pollen Robotics' closed hardware from its open MJCF sim files, publishing full assembly drawings, CAD, and electronics.
Moonshot's Kimi Code 0.42.0 Makes Multi-Model Routing a Default Feature
Kimi Code CLI 0.42.0 graduates Remote Control out of experimental, adds native Linux X11 clipboard, and ships a plugin marketplace panel.
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