Shieldstral 1.0: the 3B guard model that ties a 20B
Your moderation queue doesn't care which taxonomy a model was trained on. It cares whether that screenshot breaks the rule your legal team wrote last Tuesday. That's the pitch behind ...
Tag: ai
MiniMax H3 open weights: not licensed in the EU, UK or US
You go to pull the weights, and the license stops you at the door. That's the shape of this one. On August 3 MiniMax published H3 on Hugging Face, a ...
Qwen 3.8 Max: is it open source? Not yet
Half the headlines this week call Qwen3.8-Max an open source model. Right now it isn't one, and the gap matters if you were planning around it. Alibaba announced the model ...
What Article 50 of the EU AI Act makes you label
Somebody on your team read that Brussels postponed the AI Act and filed it under next year. Half right. The high risk rules did slip, some of them into 2028, ...
OpenAI Astra: what the ten Lean proofs actually prove
OpenAI put ten proofs on GitHub on 1 August and didn't ship a model. That's the shape of this one: an internal version of Astra, its next model family, produced ...
Inkling-Small out-codes the 975B flagship at 276B
Two weeks ago we said the honest problem with Inkling was that you probably couldn't run it. Two terabytes of VRAM will do that. Thinking Machines seems to have agreed, ...
DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731: same API, new model
Your DeepSeek bill didn't change last Friday. The model did. On 31 July DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 onto the same deepseek-v4-flash endpoint you were already calling, at the same price, with ...
Google pulled Nano Banana 2 from Earth after one day
Someone typed one sentence and put a nuclear plant in Iran. That was Thursday, and by Friday the feature that let them do it was gone: AI image generation inside ...
Amazon’s $1.8M Claude bill: 860% over, 5 months unseen
Somewhere in Amazon's catalogue, a tool was quietly matching author records against product listings. It ran for five months. It never launched, and it burned about $1.8 million in Claude ...
Gemini Robotics 2: what Google’s own benchmarks say
The clip everyone shared shows a humanoid crouching to pick a watering can off the floor, walking it across the room, and setting it on a low shelf. Smooth. Slightly ...