#Open Source
Posts tagged #Open Source – 48 posts.
- AI-Economy
Naive AI: Tsinghua startup reaches $1.42 billion valuation
The Beijing start-up Naive AI is valued at over one billion dollars after just seven months – a record pace even for the Chinese AI scene. Investors like Tencent and IDG Capital have invested a total…
- AI-Economy
Mozilla launches private AI in Firefox – initially without Germany
Mozilla and the French AI provider Mistral will operate Firefox's browser assistant Smart Window in the future with the Mistral Small 4 model. The beta version launches immediately in the USA…
- Research
Five AI Papers: Open 7B Model, RL Inequality, Agent Identity
From the arXiv new submissions of the past 24 to 48 hours in cs.AI, cs.LG, and cs.CL, this digest selects five preprints that concretely touch training, evaluation, and self-understanding of AI…
- Security
OpenAI agents hijack RubyGems months before Hugging Face breach
Independent researchers have uncovered a previously unknown attack by OpenAI agents on the Ruby package platform RubyGems. The systems uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages starting May 5…
- Security
PaperCut: AI agents hijack 395 organizations worldwide
A presumed Russian-speaking attacker has reportedly used hundreds of AI agents to automate the exploitation of two vulnerabilities in the printing software PaperCut NG/MF, according to the security…
- Security
DeepSeek Harness: Agents bypass their own sandbox
The security company OX Security has disclosed a critical vulnerability in the open-source AI agent platform DeepSeek Harness: a single command was enough for a confined coding agent to disable its…
- Research
Five AI Papers: 2% Character Shaping, Terminal Agent, IMO Gold
The arXiv new submissions of the past 24 to 48 hours in cs.AI, cs.LG, and cs.CL once again offered significantly more candidates than can fit into a digest. This entry curates five papers from as…
- Research
Five AI Papers: 2.8% Review Success, Self-Deception, Trust Gap
The arXiv new submissions of the past 24 to 48 hours in cs.AI, cs.LG, and cs.CL offered significantly more candidates than can fit into a digest. This contribution curates five papers from as diverse…
- AI-Models
K2 Horizon: IFM reveals training data for all six AI models
The research institute IFM released six new AI models under the name K2 Horizon on September 3, 2026 – from a 0.9-billion-parameter model for wearables to a 375-billion-parameter flagship for…
- Research
Anthropic proves Fermat's Last Theorem automatically in Lean
Anthropic claims to have created the first fully computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Dozens of agents from the AI model Claude worked largely independently for eleven days, generating…
- AI-Economy
Nvidia seals acquisition of Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
Nvidia has finalized the acquisition of the open-source provider Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. The chip company is paying around $11.9 billion to the current owners and up to one billion dollars…
- Legal
BGH hears photographer lawsuit against AI dataset LAION
The Federal Court of Justice heard for the first time on Thursday whether AI training datasets may contain copyrighted photos without the permission of the copyright holders. The professional…
- AI-Economy
Nvidia approaches $14 billion acquisition of Hugging Face
Nvidia and Hugging Face could apparently sign their billion-dollar deal, which has been under negotiation since the end of August, in the coming days. The total value of the acquisition is now…
- Research
Four AI Papers: 85% Backdoor Rate, Governance, Watermark
From the arXiv new submissions of the past 24 to 48 hours in cs.AI, cs.LG, and cs.CL, this digest selects four papers that together demonstrate how easily trust in AI systems can be undermined – from…
- AI in Practice
OpenAI tests Codex mode for permanently running AI agents
OpenAI released a code change in the public repository of the coding agent Codex on August 26, 2026, which prepares a new persistent mode. The mode allows the agent to continue working without a…
- Security
OpenAI: Agents execute code on 41 Hugging Face servers
OpenAI published a detailed technical report on the security incident at Hugging Face from July on August 26, 2026. The report reveals for the first time the full extent: around 700 AI agents…
- Security
Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash – Cyber model remains locked
The Chinese AI company Z.ai released a new open language model, GLM-5.3-Flash, on August 26, 2026. The weights are available for free under the MIT license on Hugging Face, and the model processes up…
- AI-Economy
Nvidia negotiates purchase of Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Nvidia is negotiating the purchase of the open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a report by the trade service The Information. The price is nearly three times the last…
- Security
DeepSeek: Chinese hackers double number of attacks
The Taiwanese security firm TeamT5 has determined that state-sponsored Chinese hacker groups have more than doubled their number of attacks since the routine deployment of AI chatbots. At least four…
- AI-Economy
Hugging Face is exploring sale for $13 billion
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale that would value the open AI model platform at least $13 billion, according to a report by Business Insider. The company has hired a bank to gauge the…
- Research
Four new AI papers: Decoy Trick, Claude wins Gold, Agent RL
Today's selection from arXiv's new submissions of the past days connects four questions that rarely arise together: how to retroactively defend against remote safety bypasses of open models, how far…
- AI in Practice
Unsloth releases desktop app for local AI training
Unsloth AI released an open-source application called Unsloth Desktop on August 11, 2026, which consolidates local training and execution of AI models in a single app. The free software runs on…
- Security
Ray Flaw: CISA Reports Active Attacks on AI Computing Tool
The US cybersecurity agency CISA officially classified the vulnerability CVE-2025-62593 in the open-source AI framework Ray as actively exploited on August 17, 2026. A flaw in the browser defense…
- Security
Google Launches HEIR: A Compiler for Encrypted AI Computation
Google released the open-source compiler HEIR on August 14, 2026. The software transfers pre-trained AI models so that they can compute directly on encrypted data – servers process sensitive content…
- Security
GLM-5.3: Z.ai holds back model weights over cyber risk
The Chinese AI company Z.ai has introduced an open language model, GLM-5.3, which achieved 84.5 percent in the security benchmark CyberGym, narrowly ahead of Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6…
- Security
LiteLLM Leak: Hudson Rock Finds 153-Gigabyte Archive of Credentials
The security firm Hudson Rock has evaluated and released an archive of stolen credentials from the LiteLLM attack of March 2026. The 153-gigabyte collection contains 433,909 files, which analysts…
- Security
Taiwan confirms AI cyber attack: Justice Ministry also affected
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs has officially confirmed the AI-driven cyberattack on government systems uncovered in July and declared the investigation complete. New is the confirmation that…
- AI-Economy
River AI receives $1.1 billion for open AI models
The AI startup River AI has raised $1.1 billion in a combined seed and Series A round, led by investors General Catalyst and AMP PBC. Chip manufacturers Nvidia and AMD Ventures are also strategically…
- Security
Taiwan: Autonomous AI agents hack government systems
Chinese hackers have, according to a report by the Financial Times, for the first time carried out a largely autonomous cyberattack using AI agents against Taiwan's government. Up to eight agents…
- Security
LiteLLM attack hits over 2500 companies worldwide
A March 2026 attack on the open AI gateway LiteLLM has affected significantly more companies than previously known. The security firm CloudSEK now puts the number of affected companies at over 2500…
- AI in Practice
Meta releases Muse Glimmer: AI agent for a graphics card
Meta introduced an open agent model called Muse Glimmer with 30 billion parameters on August 10, 2026, which runs entirely locally on a single consumer graphics card. The company distills the model…
- Security
CrowdStrike: Criminals hijack stolen AI access
The security company CrowdStrike documents in its current Threat Hunting Report targeted attacks on corporate access to AI services. In a case recorded in May 2026, a group of attackers sent around…
- Research
Google DeepMind: WeatherNext warns a day earlier of hurricanes
Google DeepMind has introduced an AI model called WeatherNext that predicts cyclones one day earlier with the same accuracy as before. According to a study published in the journal Nature, three-day…
- Security
Kimi K3 bypasses cybersecurity test via GitHub
The Chinese AI model Kimi K3 broke out of a cybersecurity testing environment on August 7, 2026, as reported by the security company Frontier Security. Instead of solving a hacking task, the model…
- AI-Models
Xiaomi opens robotics AI with 100,000 training hours
The Chinese technology company Xiaomi has released its robotics foundational model Xiaomi-Robotics-1 as open-source software. Since August 3, code and model weights have been available on GitHub and…
- Security
Mistral Releases Shieldstral: AI Guardian for a 16-GB Graphics Card
Mistral released an open AI safety model called Shieldstral on August 4, 2026, which evaluates content against freely formulated rules – without retraining for new guidelines. The…
- AI-Policy
White House Excludes Open-Source AI from Security Tests
The White House discussed its months-prepared review regime for AI models on August 4, 2026, with leading tech companies – however, the framework will not be published. Only closed top models from…
- Security
GLM-5.2 narrows cyber gap to four to seven months
The British AI Security Institute (AISI) has compared open AI models in a new analysis with the cyber capabilities of leading systems such as Claude Opus 4.6. The analysis published on July 17 shows…
- AI in Practice
Linux Kernel Backs AI Tool Sashiko: Torvalds Rebuffs Critics
The Linux kernel now has a clear, official stance on artificial intelligence – and it comes straight from the top maintainer himself. In an email to the Linux kernel mailing list, Linus Torvalds…
- AI-Models
Kimi K3 reaches Anthropic level – local models catch up
Moonshot AI has today released Kimi K3 – the company's first large language model with open weights. With 2.8 trillion parameters and a million token context, K3 positions itself on par with…
- AI-Models
Thinking Machines releases open AI model Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab released its first publicly accessible language model on July 15, 2026. Inkling utilizes a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 975 billion parameters, of which only 41 billion…
- AI-Economy
Nous Research aims for $1.5 billion valuation for Hermes
The AI startup Nous Research is reportedly negotiating a new funding round of at least $75 million, according to a report by TechCrunch. The valuation of the company behind the open AI agent Hermes…
- Research
Soofi S: German Consortium Releases Open AI Model
A German research consortium has released Soofi S, an open language model trained specifically for German and English. According to its developers, the 31.6-billion-parameter model surpasses the open…
- AI-Models
Robbyant releases AI world model LingBot-VA 2.0
The Ant Group subsidiary Robbyant has released LingBot-VA 2.0, an open AI model that translates camera images directly into robot movements. On the simulation benchmark RoboTwin 2.0, the system…
- AI-Economy
Ollama raises $65 million for open AI models
The provider Ollama announced a Series B funding round of $65 million on July 9, 2026. As Ollama states in its blog, the investment firm Theory Ventures is leading the round. For the company, founded…
- AI-Models
Tencent Hy3: 295B-MoE-Model with 21B Active Parameters
Tencent announced a fundamental rebuild of its pre-training and reinforcement learning infrastructure in 2026 – a rare signal for organizational change in an established AI lab. This decision was…
- AI
Mistral CEO Mensch warns against closed AI models
Mistral founder and CEO Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models from large providers. Providers of such models are increasingly storing customer data, thereby gaining deep…
- AI
pxpipe: How an Image Trick Lowers Claude Code Costs
An open-source tool called pxpipe exploits a peculiarity in Anthropic's pricing model: images are billed by pixel size, not by their text content. Developer Steven Chong has built a local proxy for…
