Capital One releases VulnHunter: an AI code security agent, open source
Capital One is launching VulnHunter, an agentic security tool, on July 17 - the bank is contributing to the sec + agents ecosystem.
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Mozilla publishes "State of Open Source AI": the reference documentation the ecosystem needed
Mozilla launched on July 17 a state-of-the-art website on open source AI - an anchor point at a time when the open model economy is faltering.
3 h ago 5 6
Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab ships its first open-weights model - a 975B MoE, Apache-2.0, multimodal
The first open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) is here: Inkling, MoE 975B params (41B active), multimodal, Apache-2.0 license. The most discreet box in the frontier scene enters the open market through the front door.
yesterday 8 8
Xiaomi opens Robotics-U0: a unified embodied 38B model, open source
Xiaomi publishes an open-source embodied generative model with 38 billion parameters that unifies four robotic tasks into a single architecture. The race for embodied backbones takes a step towards openness.
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 9 10
Delangue: the real race may no longer be at the border
41% of Hugging Face downloads in spring 2026 for open Chinese models, the six most used models on OpenRouter all open. The center of gravity shifted while we were looking at frontier benchmarks.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:32 9 5
Reflection signs $1M in compute with Nebius: open-weight pays for a factory
A two-year-old startup, valued at $8 billion, spends a billion calculations to train open models. The bet: regulatory restrictions on closed systems make open-source strategic—not just nice.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 10 7
Ant Group publishes its safety models for agents and multimodal systems
Ant Group announces a family of models dedicated to the safety of AI agents and multimodal systems. A rare example of a safety-first approach, with systemic implications for the Chinese ecosystem.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 12 9
"6 months to live": the window that is closing for open models
Nathan Lambert gives open frontier models 6 months to prove an economic model. The expiration date is not technical - it is financial.
Jul 13, 2026 at 02:18 13 5
Qwen 3.5-122B runs as a daily driver on Mac Studio - 3 bugs fixed, a silent switch
An engineer documents on his blog three patches that transform a large Qwen 3.5 model (via MLX) into a reliable daily companion on a Mac Studio. Local hardware is making progress in practical applications, patch by patch.
Jul 12, 2026 at 11:17 10 8
pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression suite - Rust arrives at the heart of data
A Rust port of PostgreSQL now passes all official regression tests. This is not a toy - it's a signal.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 12 10
India: Bhashini tests offline and open-source AI - the anti-Silicon Valley
Rest of World documents a Bhashini hackathon focused on offline models in Indian languages. A bet: making AI useful without American cloud.
Jul 11, 2026 at 10:44 12 8
Copyright vs. training data: the NYT vs OpenAI dispute, and Google's AI ad-disclosure rule
The New York Times is asking a court to sanction OpenAI over training-data discovery; Google now requires advertisers to disclose generative AI use in ads. Two regulatory pincers on the same problem: what "AI-generated" means when the law wants a source of truth.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 7 8