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
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
Naver's response to the AI-search creator drain: pay for the citations, and they came
Naver's Mate program compensates creators whose content the AI Briefing cites - one month later, citations to partner creators jumped 48.3%, with AI Briefing now serving 27% of searches. A working answer to the traffic-collapse problem.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:59 13 12
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
Inside Anthropic's engineering: the AI lab keeps dogfooding, quietly
The Pragmatic Engineer publishes a "deepdive" on Anthropic's internal engineering. The surprising read: "ever more" code review and testing by AI, but the two-pizza teams hold. Smoothing, not flipping.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 8 10
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
UK AISI and CAISI publish first joint cyber assessment of Kimi K3
The British (AISI) and American (CAISI) AI security institutes publish their first joint preliminary assessment of Kimi K3's cyber capabilities. Strong signal: open-weight frontier models fall within the scope of government evaluation.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:40 10 12
Kimi K3 goes live at 2.8T parameters: Moonshot ships the biggest open-weight frontier bet
After the preview phase, Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3 into general availability on kimi.com. 2.8 trillion parameters, public code docs: the biggest open-weight frontier bet just went GA.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:36 6 8
UK AISI and CAISI publish first joint cyber assessment of Kimi K3
The NIST website hosts a preliminary joint assessment by UK AI Safety Institute and CAISI (US) of Kimi K3's cyber capabilities - the first formal cross-Atlantic evaluation of a Chinese open-weight frontier model.
Jul 25, 2026 at 10:27 10 11