Cohere VP says enterprise AI sovereignty requires control of the full agent stack

Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026, the year's preeminent conference on using g [...]

Sakana AI's orchestrator adds Nvidia Nemotron to prove "collective intelligence" can rival single frontier models

Sakana AI is integrating Nvidia's open-source Nemotron models into its Fugu orchestrator, which dynamically combines multiple language models for specific tasks. The core argument: Open models on [...]

The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their interna [...]

Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licen [...]

Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first

Thunderbird developers are working on a new email service that prioritizes privacy over everything else. Here's everything we know so far. [...]

Mecha Comet is a modular open source handheld computer that reminds me of the Indian PDA that may have inspired the iPhone

You can snap on new extensions, like a keyboard or game controller. [...]

Mistral AI says its Small 3 model is a local, open-source alternative to GPT-4o mini

The new 24B-parameter LLM 'excels in scenarios where quick, accurate responses are critical.' In fact, the model can be run on a MacBook with 32GB RAM. [...]

DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole

For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI's GPT-5 family, Anthropic's Claude [...]

NASA and Red Hat are building an open source medical system to diagnose sick astronauts on the ISS — could a Star Trek Tricorder be next?

NASA and Red Hat are testing an offline AI medical assistant called CMO-DA to help astronauts diagnose and treat conditions during deep space missions. [...]