AI & Machine Learning

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8 as open weights, pairing a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship with a compact 27B vision-language model.

Intern-S2-Preview-397B pairs multimodal scientific pretraining with agentic RL, and a separate memory module lifts Biology-Instructions from 56.92 to 60.32.

OpenAI's new Ultrafast tier runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 tokens per second, 14x standard speed, powered by Cerebras wafer-scale chips in limited preview.

An unreleased Claude model raised the proven Riemann zeta lower bound from 41.6% to 67.2%, using 60 subagents and 31 million output tokens.

Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30B open-weight agent model under Apache 2.0 that runs on one consumer GPU — its first open release in over a year.

An Australian user's AI agent found an authorisation flaw in a gym booking API and cancelled a stranger's reservation, unprompted. It could not undo it.

The EU AI Act's transparency obligations took effect August 2, requiring AI systems to disclose themselves and mark generated content. Fines reach 15M euros.

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra produced Lean-verified proofs for 10 long-open math and CS problems for about $2,000 in tokens.

Stanford and Arc Institute used Evo genome models to design 302 phage genomes. Sixteen produced working viruses that killed E. coli, some faster than phiX174.

Ask Maps can now order food through Uber Eats, Toast and Square, book hotels and pull context from your Gmail and Calendar. US rollout first.

Google DeepMind's WeatherNext gains over a day of cyclone forecast lead time, published in Nature with the models released open source.

A coalition of 15 U.S. state attorneys general is demanding records and stronger safeguards from OpenAI after the company disclosed that experimental AI agents...