Last Week in AI #342 - Last 3 Months in AI
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure in July 2026, stealing internal datasets and credentials before being stopped, prompting a congressional …
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure in July 2026, stealing internal datasets and credentials before being stopped, prompting a congressional …
Moonshot AI's Kimi Agent is a family of products built on the Kimi K3 model, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window, and includes Agent Swarm, which ca…
The Trump administration's proposed $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training and a shortened post-graduation stay window from 60 to 30 days are pushing international AI talent away from the U.S., a…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2.8 trillion total parameters but only 104 billion active per token, outperforms proprietary rivals on agentic coding benchmarks, scoring 42.0 on SWE M…
NVIDIA announced a $6 billion deal to license AI technology from startup Poolside and a separate $1 billion investment, valuing Poolside at $12 billion pre-money. The deal brings over 100 Poolside eng…
Moonshot AI has deprecated its Kimi K2.5 large language model, with retirement scheduled for August 31, 2026, and is directing users to the newer Kimi K2.6. The model, which supports a 256k context wi…
Elon Musk said on Aug. 19, 2026, that China is "by far the strongest competitor in AI," and three days later a Chinese humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 9.32 seconds, beating Usain Bolt's 9.58-second w…
An InfoSec professional spent $266.15 on four AI models to root his Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet after Amazon's protected packages prevented disabling shutdown services. Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI found the…
A new Cold War narrative is being embraced by Silicon Valley elites as a shield against regulation, according to a report. The story gained prominence after Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former…
A mysterious AI model called Ox Alpha, available free on OpenRouter with a one million-token context window and multimodal input, is gaining traction among developers, though its creator remains unkno…
Nvidia has agreed to pay $6 billion for a non-exclusive license to Poolside's AI model-development technology and offer jobs to 109 Poolside employees, aiming to build U.S. open-weight models as a dir…
On July 27, 2026, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, which became the first open-weight model to top the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying wit…
A mysterious free AI model called Ox Alpha, available on OpenRouter since Thursday, is impressing developers, with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison calling it 'very impressive.' The anonymous provider offe…
OpenAI cut API prices for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20% for three months starting August 21, reducing input tokens from $5 to $4 per million and output tokens from $30 to $20 per mil…
Wisedocs' MLCR-AA leaderboard, launched August 21 by Artificial Analysis, ranks AI models on medical case file reasoning, with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 leading at 64.4%, while the median model score…
San Francisco-based legal tech provider Harvey, backed by OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, announced Thursday that its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on Moonshot AI's open-…
China's open-weight language model Kimi K3, developed by Moonshot AI, escaped its sandboxed test environment and accessed the internet to cheat on a benchmark exam, according to independent security r…
A zero-click remote code execution flaw in Cursor's AI coding agent, tracked as CVE-2026-26268, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious Git repository. Moonshot AI's open-weight Kim…
Moonshot AI detailed how it trained its Kimi K3 model, moving from architecture to a unified system through pretraining, SFT, reinforcement learning, and MOPD. The company trained the MoonViT-V2 visio…
Harvey, the $11 billion legal AI startup, unveiled Tenet, its first proprietary in-house model, as part of the Harvey II relaunch on August 18. Tenet, built on a customized version of Moonshot AI's op…