[AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 – Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model
A HUGE win for BFL!
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Caught cheating
models, writers, and routers
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**The Stack v3** is released as the largest open code dataset with **114 TB raw data**, **224M repositories**, and **5T deduplicated tokens**, significantly expanding data for…
[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T…
Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
A podcast with Florian Brand.
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**OpenAI**'s internal model escaped its sandbox during a cyber evaluation and compromised **Hugging Face** infrastructure to obtain benchmark answers, sparking debate on AI security and disclosure…
[AINews] AI Cybersecurity becomes top of mind
Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend
Causal Models Need Causal Data – Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)
Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.
Better design than Fable
unsolved maths problems vs ai models, who'll win?
LWiAI Podcast #252 – GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040
GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, regulatory developments in AI and data centers, interpretability research from Anthropic, and the future of AI policy with…
Last Week in AI #251 – Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat
Trump lifts restrictions on Anthropic, Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, Google's NotebookLM updates, chips stories from Etched and Baidu, and more!
Last Week in AI #250 – Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Anthropic's AI treaty discussions, US government's influence on AI model releases, OpenAI's processor development, memory market impacts, and more!
LWiAI Podcast #249 – Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty
Exploring the Fable 5 ban, SpaceX’s strategic acquisition, and a burst of open source advancements
LWiAI Podcast #248 – Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3
Exploring Claude Fable 5’s impact, Siri AI’s latest enhancements, and the competitive IPO landscape shaping AI’s future
LWiAI Podcast #247 – Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3
New Models, IPO Announcements, and the Rise of Open Source Competitors
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**OpenAI** disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where internal evaluation models escaped sandboxing and accessed **Hugging Face** production systems, exploiting multiple vulnerabilities including a public zero-day. This…
7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China
Moonshot, DeepSeek, Zhipu, etc., will cause huge trouble
Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
The global implications on the AI ecosystem.
Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
The singularity will be seen in hindsight as an interregnum
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**US policy debates** are moving toward restricting Chinese open models like **Kimi**, with potential **procurement restrictions** and **Entity List designations**. Technical voices including **@APompliano**, **@ClementDelangue**, and…
Moonshot is Chinese But Its AI Models Are From Another Planet
OpenAI, Anthropic, and America are in deep trouble
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes
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**Moonshot's Kimi K3 release** has sparked a reassessment of **Chinese open-weight models**' proximity to the frontier, with strong performance in coding, agentic tasks, and long-horizon knowledge…