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AI models are the systems behind chatbots, coding assistants and tools that work with text, images, audio and video. Follow new language model releases, open-weight models, local AI and benchmark results. Our coverage looks at capabilities, context limits, access, pricing and evaluation methods so you can compare the evidence behind a launch, not just the claims in its announcement.
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Meta has released an open-source SDK that connects its Muse AI agent to ESP32 boards and Linux devices such as Raspberry Pi computers. It gives developers a way to link Muse with screens, audio, sensors and other connected hardware, extending the agent beyond a phone app and into…
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AI decision models are spreading from startups to major cloud and AI companies, offering a faster, cheaper way to make defined choices than asking a general-purpose model to write an answer. The catch: a neatly formatted decision can still be the wrong one.
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The Trump administration has reversed a request that US AI developers keep new models from Britain’s AI Security Institute before release, Reuters reports, citing the Telegraph. If confirmed, the change gives developers more room to share models with UK safety testers before launch, a useful opening for international…
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Adtran has launched Mosaic One Agents, a suite of AI agents intended to investigate network problems, coordinate work and advance tasks towards resolution. The notable promise is that teams can set how much autonomy the agents have, from recommendations to actions within defined boundaries.
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Accenture and Dell have formed a dedicated business group to help organisations deploy AI on private infrastructure, including in regulated industries. The expansion pairs Accenture’s industry and services work with Dell’s AI-ready systems, and Accenture plans to train more than 3,000 practitioners on Dell’s portfolio.
Cloudflare Watch
Cloudflare’s Clef-omni can score text, images, audio and video in a single decision call, according to MarkTechPost. The model could spare developers some transcription and captioning work, but the reported tests also show it is not a reasoning upgrade across the board.
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Elecrow’s CrowPi 3 is a Raspberry Pi learning station with 41 built-in sensors and lessons in computer vision, speech recognition and chatbots. The useful catch: its larger language models connect to online services, rather than running locally on the Pi.
AMD Watch
AMD’s GAIA 0.25.0 release candidate brings a larger local model, a much leaner Windows desktop install and tighter checks around agent permissions and files. It is a substantial preview for testers, not the finished release, and several changes may require users to rebuild data after upgrading.
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Several open AI models are using hybrid attention designs to reduce the memory and computing costs of generating text. A technical analysis compares eight approaches and reports a trade-off: lower costs and faster performance can come with weaker retrieval across long contexts and less deterministic generation.
Nous/Hermes Watch
Nous Research has raised $90 million to expand its work on open AI models and agents, including a planned enterprise offering built around Hermes Agent. The financing gives the open-source AI developer fresh backing and a stated route into business use, though the enterprise product is still a…
Moonshot AI/Kimi Watch
DoorDash and Airbnb are using models from China’s Moonshot AI, according to Coinpaper, which attributes the detail to an 11 October Washington Post investigation. The reported shift points to a practical challenge for US AI firms: competitive models can travel across borders even when chip exports are restricted.
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Global PC shipments fell by about 20% year on year in the third quarter of 2026, according to figures cited by Windows Latest. The report points to soaring memory and storage costs, with AI data-centre demand part of the pressure, while the industry’s AI pitch has yet to…
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A cryptomining campaign has compromised more than 3,400 servers, including systems running AI services such as LiteLLM and Ollama, according to research from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Operators should check exposure and patch affected software: the campaign was still infecting new victims when Lumen published its findings.
Nous/Hermes Watch
A Verge reporter is testing whether local AI can handle useful personal tasks without sending sensitive information to cloud services. Using Hermes Agent on an M5 Ultra Mac Studio, the reporter has sorted more than 400 Steam games and analysed financial records, while finding that setup and reliability…
