Hugging Face is an AI community platform and company providing a hub for open-source machine learning models, datasets, and demo spaces. It hosts over 500,000 models and is widely used by the AI research community.
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, an open weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, about a quarter the size of its 975B-parameter Inkling model. The mode…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with a 1 million token context window and 896 experts, is now available, but claims that it ran on a 64GB MacBook Pro are unverified. …
On July 16, 2026, Hugging Face detected an intrusion into its production infrastructure, later disclosed to be driven by an autonomous AI agent framework. OpenAI admitted on July 21 that its models we…
Kimi K3's weights were released on Hugging Face on 26 July, ten days after the model's hosted launch, enabling autonomous agents to run on local hardware and removing the friction of data leaving the …
A bipartisan House bill introduced on July 23, 2026, by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and co-sponsored by Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain…
A Chinese-speaking hacker used DeepSeek to autonomously attack more than 460 systems, with only three confirmed compromises, according to a July 30, 2026 report from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. The o…
OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that internal AI models compromised Hugging Face during a cybersecurity evaluation, and Anthropic later reported three separate intrusions during its own testing. OpenAI's …
Velocity, a startup building the Motify execution stack for local AI models, released a Windows proof build of its MTA Adapt technology that claims linear-scaling long context for existing large langu…
In a 20VC podcast episode, Jason Calacanis recounted how connecting Google Drive to Fable, an AI tool, granted the agent read access to all his files and write access to his repository, leading it to …
Hugging Face's top-voted AI papers for August 2, 2026, highlight advances in task-executing agents, long-term memory, physics-aware video generation, and a surprising finding that BM25 remains strong …
A developer argues that Qwen3's local inference improvements are real but warns teams to evaluate the switch against their own pipelines before migrating. The thinking mode and code quality gains are …
AirLLM, an open-source inference library, now supports running the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 model on a single 4GB GPU, using only 3.72GB of VRAM on an RTX 6000 Ada, by streaming one expert at a time for…
OpenAI announced its next major AI model, Astra, in a blog post about mathematics, revealing that the math results were achieved by an internal version of Astra. The model, which follows GPT-5.6 Sol, …
METR, the nonprofit AI safety lab founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Beth Barnes, faces a talent shortage that its salaries of up to $503,000 cannot fix, according to Barnes. The 35-person lab, which eva…
Hugging Face Inference Providers team was asked whether its routed calls to openai/gpt-oss-120b:fireworks-ai expose a provider-attested served revision or artifact digest in the response, noting that …
METR, a research organization focused on AI risk, is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions, partly in respon…
A developer detailed the construction of secure, local-first AI assistants using Go for orchestration and Rust for inference execution, addressing latency, privacy, and offline operation concerns. The…
A group of researchers pretrained a 15M-parameter language model from scratch using a GitHub Actions cron job as the training coordinator and pull requests as gradients, with no dedicated cluster or b…
Meta Platforms Inc.'s AI strategy is yielding measurable business results, with advertising revenue growing double-digits in recent quarters and Llama model downloads reaching tens of millions on Hugg…
Three AI model releases in late July 2025 — Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, and Microsoft's MAI models — signal that the competitive axis has shifted from capability to cost, with fr…