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China’s Zhipu AI (Z.ai) claims its open-weight GLM-5.2 model can match Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity vulnerability detection, even if it still lags behind on general reasoning tasks. The claim, reported by The Verge, marks a significant new frontier in the AI model race. GLM-5.2 was originally released in June as a coding-focused model with a […]

Ford has hired back 350 veteran engineers, including former employees and workers from suppliers, after discovering that relying on artificial intelligence alone was not enough to ensure manufacturing quality. The move is a concrete example of the limits of AI in complex physical manufacturing. Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told TechCrunch: […]

China has retaken the top spot on the TOP500 supercomputer ranking for the first time since 2017, with a system built entirely from domestic processors that achieves world-leading performance without a single GPU accelerator. LineShine, installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, recorded 2.198 exaflops on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, roughly 80% […]

SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has publicly questioned Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers, arguing that building compute infrastructure in space will neither cut costs meaningfully nor arrive in time for the current AI arms race. Speaking at a SoftBank shareholder meeting on June 23, Son said that power accounts for only about […]

LastPass has confirmed another data breach, this time through a compromised third-party service provider. Attackers used stolen OAuth tokens from Klue, a market intelligence platform, to access LastPass’s Salesforce environment and extract customer contact information. The breach is the latest in a troubled security history for the password manager, which suffered a major 2022 incident […]

DeepSeek has open-sourced DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that accelerates per-user text generation on its DeepSeek-V4 models by 60 to 85 percent without sacrificing output quality. The framework, along with the MIT-licensed DeepSpec training codebase, is available on GitHub and Hugging Face. DSpark is a serving optimization, not a new model. The checkpoints DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark and […]

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The Trump administration’s export ban on Anthropic’s most advanced models is creating exactly the kind of market vacuum that critics warned about. Two weeks after Mythos 5 and Fable 5 were blocked from non-American access, Asian AI startups are rushing to fill the gap with alternatives of their own. Sakana AI: Fugu, the orchestration hedge. […]

After two weeks of tense negotiations with the Trump administration, Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is back in action, at least for a select group of organizations. Fable 5, the public-facing Mythos-class model, remains stuck in regulatory limbo with no timeline for release. The breakthrough came in a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic co-founder […]

Digital sovereignty has moved from policy slogan to operational agenda. At this year’s UN Open Source Week, a coalition of nations, technologists, and institutions laid out concrete roadmaps for replacing dependence on US cloud giants with open-source alternatives — and the conversation was notably more urgent than in years past. Tanzania: from consumers to creators. […]