CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
5 h ago 5 8
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.
17 h ago 10 10
Rust All-Hands 2026: 166 Rustaceans, 73 sessions, zero decisions—that’s the goal
Rust All-Hands 2026 (Utrecht, May) brought together 166 contributors across 73 sessions over 3 days. No formal decisions were made—this is the rule. However, several technical breakthroughs emerged: `rustc_public`, `cargo-semver-checks`, union semantics, and the allocator trait.
17 h ago 7 9
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
Hugging Face breach post-mortem: the OpenAI hacker was loud, and that was the good news
TechCrunch's forensic analysis of the HF breach: OpenAI's actor was noisy, fast, and detectable. Which is the industry's fig leaf - because the next one won't be.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:38 15 13
Nscale/Anyscale: Ray becomes the neocloud's new customer lock-in
Nscale acquires the company behind Ray - the open-source distributed-compute framework ML teams actually write against. The prize is placement, not code.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:38 11 14
OpenAI restores ChatGPT Work / Codex 5-hour limits after fixing a GPT-5.6 Sol token bug
The rate limit holiday ends. OpenAI turns the 5-hour caps back on 29 July after patching a GPT-5.6 Sol overconsumption bug that had been running since 12 July - with a claimed 18% net capacity uplift.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 15 11
Korean banks pivot to 'AI vs AI' after the Hugging Face lesson
The big four Korean financial groups roll out AI-native defensive stacks - Woori's Xint, Hana's HASF, Shinhan's generative pentests, KB in build - as the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident becomes the industry's proof point.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 14 11
Altman: an AI power monopoly would be a 'long-term disaster'
After the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's CEO reframes closed AI as a risk vector - spread the capabilities, and the safety bar rises with them.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 8 11
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
What three outside reads of Kimi K3 tell us - architecture, delta attention, and the real ambition
Three external reviews of Kimi K3 fall in the same week: Raschka on architecture, Doubleword on Kimi Delta Attention, Pandaily on the technical report. They converge: it's not the size that matters, it's the hybrid bet.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 9 8
Nvidia envisage un financement de 250 milliards de dollars pour le centre de données d'OpenAI en Ohio - la dette fournisseur atteint une nouvelle échelle
Nvidia is reportedly discussing up to $250 billion of financing support for OpenAI's Ohio site - an amount that would rewrite what "vendor financing" means at hyperscale.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 7 10