“I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm,” wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED.
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.
This week, Windrose founder and CEO Wen Han made heavy truck history by putting the CAD models for all 1,023 parts from the X9D01 base model of his Windrose E700 Class 8 electric truck online. For free.
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Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders’ feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
X is expanding the open source code behind its ‘For You’ feed and launching new transparency tools that show users when its ranking systems have affected their accounts or posts.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million.
Elon Musk says Tesla plans to “open source” the Model S and Model X, and he’s pointing to the original Roadster as the template.
The problem is Tesla’s Roadster release amounted to eight files on GitHub plus five document packages behind a login, with …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable model to develop Kimi K3.