Open-Source AI
Open models — Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and others — are catching up to closed labs and let you run AI on your own hardware, vendor-free. That shifts the balance of power, the safety debate and the economics of the field. Here is everything on open-source AI: open-weight releases, licenses, local deployment and the race against closed models.
Microsoft releases Aurora 1.5: a model for weather and climate forecasting
Aurora 1.5 expands Microsoft’s open weather forecasting model with 22 new variables, hourly resolution, and probabilistic forecasting for climate and energy…
Anthropic posted over $1 billion in profit in Q3 2026
According to SemiAnalysis, the company behind Claude achieved quarterly profit exceeding $1 billion in 3Q26, which could signal an upcoming IPO.
Samsung GAIA: An AI accelerator for mass-market PCs
Samsung is developing a dedicated GAIA chip to accelerate artificial intelligence on standard computers, allowing users to run powerful AI models without replacing…
Station F opens new intake for AI-accelerator F/ai for European startups
Why Open AI's Growth Doesn't (Yet) Threaten Anthropic: A Lifecycle Analysis
Meta Launches Muse Image, First Superintelligence Labs AI Photo Model for Instagram
Meta launched Muse — an AI image generator for ads, interior design, and content creators
Meta allowed Instagram photos to be used for AI generation without explicit user consent
With the launch of the Muse Image model, Meta by default opened access to public Instagram photos — users must opt out themselves.
Liquid AI Released Antidoom: FTPO Method Reduces Hangs in Reasoning Models
Liquid AI open-sourced Antidoom — a tool that identifies the token trigger of infinite loops and retrains only it, reducing doom-loop frequency from 22.9% to 1%.
IBM and Red Hat launched Lightwell to protect open-source code from AI attacks
The US closed access to Claude Mythos, China restricts GLM and Qwen: neural networks have become a strategic weapon
Nomagic deployed a VLA model in warehouse robots and halved operator callouts
Five AI rounds in 24 hours: $300 million for quantum computing and Prime Intellect hits unicorn status
Microsoft bets on in-house AI models to cut costs
Microsoft has joined the trend of cutting AI spending and plans to significantly expand the use of its own models, reducing its reliance on third-party providers.
AWS presented two WAF protection patterns for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
AWS published two ready-to-use architectural patterns for protecting AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF: one with a Lambda proxy and one with a direct route to the ENI…