AI
An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English
A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) foundation model designed for German and English.
AI
Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, today released its first major language model, Inkling, under an Apache 2.0 open-source license.
AI
Xai-org/grok-build, now open source
In a dramatic response to a severe privacy backlash, xAI has open-sourced the entire Grok Build codebase under an Apache 2.0 license, just one day after its Grok CLI tool was found to upload entire directories—including SSH keys and password databases—to Google Cloud servers.
Crypto
A bitcoin wallet dormant since the 2017 peak just moved $383 million
The wallet had accumulated the coins in late 2017 when bitcoin traded near $16,000, within weeks of the cycle peak around $20,000.
AI
Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Enterprise AI organizations are rapidly consolidating agent orchestration onto model-provider platforms, but a significant gap persists between ambition and reality, with most deployed 'agents' remaining simple chatbot wrappers rather than true multi-step workflows, according to new research from VentureBeat Pulse.
AI
A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort
Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 41 billion active parameters.
Prism
1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones
PrismML has released Bonsai 27B, a radically compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B large language model, designed to run efficiently on laptops and even smartphones.
Prism
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
The discovery stems from 11 firmware images, known as shims, that were signed by Microsoft despite being known as defective since at least 2013.
Prism
Nothing’s good-looking Watch 3 Pro smartwatch is just $69
The CMF by Nothing Watch 3 Pro, a budget-friendly smartwatch known for its blend of style and functionality, is now available at an unprecedented low price of $69 on Amazon.
AI
A Law Aimed at AI Girlfriends Just Wiped 8 Million Agents From China's Biggest AI App
ByteDance's Doubao, China's largest AI app with approximately 350 million monthly active users, disabled its user-built agent feature at midnight Beijing time on July 15, rendering over 8 million custom agents read-only.