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  1. Alibaba open-weights Qwen 3.8 with a 27B model that tops its bigger predecessor

    Alibaba's Qwen team announced the open weights for Qwen3.8 on August 14. The Qwen3.8-27B model card lists the Apache 2.0 license, and Hugging Face shows its weight files uploaded on August 13 (UTC). The move puts a capable new open model directly into the hands of researchers and companies that want to fine-tune and self-host it. The centerpiece is Qwen3.8-27B, a 27 billion parameter multimodal dense model. Qwen says it outperforms the larger Qwen3.7-Plus on coding and office tasks. The team al

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  2. Google now lets users strip the visible watermark from its AI images, video, and audio

    Google said Friday it will let users remove the visible watermark from its AI-generated images, video, and audio. The company said turning off the visible mark does not affect the invisible SynthID watermark or the C2PA metadata used to identify an AI-generated file. Josh Woodward, Google's vice president for Gemini, announced the change in a post on X. The invisible SynthID signal and the C2PA provenance data stay in place, so machines can still tell a file was generated even after the visible

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  3. Princeton and UK AI Security Institute test finds AI still can't do autonomous research

    Anthropic and OpenAI have promoted their models as able to speed up, and eventually run, AI research on their own. A new experiment from Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute suggests the research judgment behind that claim is not there yet. The team built a method they call Shadow Evaluation. An agent receives the central research question from an unpublished paper, then the paper's original authors, who spent months on it, review the result as conference reviewers would. Because the pape

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  4. OpenAI's Computer History turns your Mac activity into a searchable ChatGPT memory

    OpenAI has started rolling out Computer History, a macOS feature that records a user's interactions across apps and websites and turns them into a searchable timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use as context. Unlike the earlier Chronicle research preview, which captured screenshots, Computer History logs interaction events: clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts, and app switches, read through macOS accessibility. OpenAI says it does not capture screenshots, screen recordings, microphone input

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  5. French startup Kog says smarter software can pull 30x faster inference out of stock GPUs

    The race for faster AI inference has pushed labs toward custom silicon, but a French startup argues the cheapest speedup is already sitting in servers companies bought. Kog says it can reach roughly thirty times faster LLM inference on standard data-center GPUs using software alone. Kog demonstrated three thousand tokens per second per request on AMD MI300X and NVIDIA H200 GPUs in May, running a small two-billion-parameter model it has since open-sourced as Laneformer 2B. Chief executive Gael D

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  6. OpenAI's Ultrafast mode pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 tokens per second

    OpenAI's Ultrafast mode pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 tokens per second OpenAI has opened a preview of "Ultrafast" mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model. The mode streams up to 750 output tokens per second, which OpenAI frames as roughly 14 times the speed of the standard API, by running inference on Cerebras hardware. Cerebras and OpenAI signed a ten billion dollar partnership earlier this year, and Ultrafast is the first major use of that capacity. Access is limited for now to

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  7. Anthropic lets Claude Code run daily maintenance on its own apps

    Anthropic is running an experiment in which Claude Code performs daily maintenance on the company's own software, and the results are already measurable. Across the first few weeks, the system opened 388 pull requests and had 180 merged after review, a roughly 46 percent acceptance rate. Boris Cherny, the Anthropic engineer who created Claude Code, described the setup in a LinkedIn post. Through Anthropic's internal Tag integration, Claude runs a set of scheduled routines every day inside a de

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  9. Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities

    Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, has released GLM-5.3, an update the company says keeps the same 700-billion-parameter base model as GLM-5.2 and derives every capability gain from scaled-up post-training. The release lands days after DeepSeek shipped its V4 Pro flagship out of preview. Stronger coding through environment scaling GLM-5.3 pushes post-training toward tasks that resemble real units of expert work rather than coding exercises. The company built pipelines that synthesize environments end

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  10. Chinese AI labs dominate text-to-video: 9 of top 10 models are Chinese

    Outside of Alphabet's Google, nine of the world's top ten text-to-video models are now Chinese, according to the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The ranking, based on blind human evaluation of generated clips, places Google's Gemini Omni Flash at number one. Every slot from two through ten belongs to a Chinese lab. The Chinese contingent includes: MiniMax — H3 ByteDance — Seedance 2.0 Alibaba — Wan (two builds), HappyHorse (two builds, ~15B parameters, open weight) Kuaishou — Kling (two bu

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