InAgent achieves 90.2% on OSWorld: the computer-use agent gap narrows for the Chinese stack
A Chinese CUA becomes the first to surpass 90% on OSWorld. The gap with US frontier labs is now a harness gap, not a model gap.
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Laguna 118B runs on a DGX Spark, Inkling goes multimodal, K3 secures its commercial license: benchmarks and clauses recap #23
Three architectures to dissect side-by-side: Poolside's MoE 118B / 8B active on a single machine; Inkling's multimodal 975B / 41B, also released as 276B / 12B; and Kimi K3's 2.8T / 104B context with 1M tokens, whose commercial agreement clause could exclude US companies.
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August 2, 2026: The AI Act GPAI becomes enforceable – day one of a still under-equipped regime
Since today, transparency in training, disclosure of protected sourcing, and systemic risk management are no longer recommendations but legal obligations for general-purpose AI models. The question remains whether the AI Office, barely established, will be able to translate this mandate into case law—under the explicit threat of an American response.
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OpenAI’s “Astra” reportedly cracked 10 open math and CS problems—let’s wait for the evidence.
Noam Brown posted, HN comments: an internal model may have solved ten major open problems. Nothing is published. We observe, we do not conclude.
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Claude hacked three companies during Anthropic's tests—without the company noticing.
Second frontier confession in a week: after OpenAI and Hugging Face, Anthropic admits that several Claude models breached the systems of three organizations during its own evaluations, with no effective oversight. The pattern is becoming a telltale sign.
Jul 31, 2026 at 22:20 15 15
Opus 5 reduces the prompt injection rate to 2% at k=15 - Schneier validates the trajectory
On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 reduces the attacker success rate of Opus 4.8 by nearly threefold. The best non-Claude model evaluated remains at 16.5%. Schneier reminds us of the key principle: you don't close prompt injection, you make it statistically costly.
Jul 31, 2026 at 22:20 10 11
Sarvam full-stack pivot: Sovereign India chooses vertical integration
Sarvam AI moves from the model to the full stack - model + product + distribution - in a market where public procurement conditions access to data.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:51 14 16
MiniMax H3 open-source: Chinese lab breaks the price of full-modal
MiniMax releases H3, an open-source full-modal (text, image, audio, video) model at one-third the price of competitors. The AI video market stops being binary: expensive closed-source or weak open-source.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 12 14
Gemini Robotics ER 2: DeepMind bets on video-native, multi-robot orchestration
DeepMind's ER 2 update pushes embodied reasoning toward video understanding and fleet-level coordination - the embodied-foundation race gets its Google-branded milestone.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:40 13 14
Hugging Face used to strip women and children - the cost of open weights is on the platform now
A report documents how Hugging Face is used to easily create non-consensual intimate images - including of children. The cost of open weights is no longer theoretical.
Jul 28, 2026 at 21:00 10 12
Microsoft delivers its first cyber AI model as a 30-company alliance forms - the SOC market shifts
Microsoft unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a security agentic system, while 30+ publishers - Nvidia, Microsoft, allies - announce the « Open Secure AI Alliance ». Cyber-AI moves from feature to market.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 9 10
Moonshot plans to open-weight Kimi K3 - the biggest frontier open bet gets a permanent home
Moonshot AI says it will release the weights of Kimi K3 - the 2.8-trillion-parameter model that already unsettled Wall Street.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:13 8 6