Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle
Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run [...]
German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German
A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid archite [...]
Open-weight models now match frontier cyber performance from just four months ago at a fraction of the cost
The British AI Security Institute warns that open-weight models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now trail closed frontier models in cyber capabilities by four to seven months. At the start of 2025, t [...]
Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less [...]
US reportedly favors selective bans over blanket restrictions on Chinese open weight models citing security concerns
The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing regulation of open-w [...]
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including A [...]
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading op [...]
Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the weights are compressed, needing less than [...]