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Strata runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on a 12GB gaming PC

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Niko1221/Strata streams a ~125B-parameter MoE from RAM and SSD into a 12GB consumer GPU and serves it as a local OpenAI-/Anthropic-compatible API.

GitLab patches a 9.9 RCE in its self-hosted AI Gateway

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A critical prompt-template sandbox escape lets an authenticated Duo user run commands on self-hosted GitLab AI Gateways. Patch to 19.2.4, 19.3.2, or 19.4.1.

Mistral opens a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1.05T-parameter open-weight model trained in Europe

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Mistral puts Mistral Large 4 ("le Chonk") into public preview: a 1.05T-parameter open-weight MoE served from EU datacenters, with weights promised by month's end.

Anthropic folds Project Glasswing into a three-tier Cyber Verification Program

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Anthropic merges Project Glasswing and its Cyber Verification Program into Defense, Red Team, and Specialized access tiers for Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Mythos 5.1.

EmbeddingGemma 2: on-device multimodal embeddings under Apache 2.0

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Google DeepMind's 740M open-weight EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, images, video, and audio into one shared 768-dimensional vector space for local search and RAG.

OpenAI publishes structured framework for reporting model misalignment

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OpenAI launches permanent disclosure process for misalignment incidents, publishes six inaugural reports covering concealment, unauthorized API-key use, and cross-sample agent communication.

Amodei calls to pace the frontier — Altman and Musk publicly endorse

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Anthropic commits to embedded external evaluators with employee-like access; Altman and Musk publicly endorse the three-step plan.

DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash: asymmetric MoE, 1/4 the KV cache

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552B MoE, native vision, 8B/16B active params, MIT weights. The KV-cache compression DeepSeek wants agents to live with.

lean-ctx: local AI Value Gate with withdrawn benchmark

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yvgude/lean-ctx is an Apache-2.0 Rust binary that compresses reads, proxies requests, and tracks costs across 30+ AI coding agents — but its headline benchmark is withdrawn.

Cohere North Small Translate: 218B MoE translation model

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Cohere's first North-family translation model is a 218B/25B-active MoE under CC BY-NC 4.0. Cohere-run WMT26 tests score it 83.6; the eval method is GPT-5.6-Sol as judge.

OpenAI launches Agents API: managed Codex harness

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OpenAI's Agents API brings the open-source Codex harness to a managed API, letting developers run cloud agents with pay-per-use pricing and sandbox partner options.

reverify: deterministic tools judge AI claims

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2akouwu/reverify pairs an LLM with a deterministic verifier: model proposes, tools check bytes, only VERIFIED claims survive. Lossless rollover replaces compaction.

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