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Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4 Trillion Parameters, With No Benchmarks Published

Alibaba has opened preview access to Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model it says trails only Anthropi...

Pub. 22 Jul

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AI & ML 6 min

The European Parliament Is Building Its Own AI Hub to Keep Lawmakers Off Public Chatbots

The European Parliament is testing EPGenAI Hub, an internal platform giving MEPs and staff controlled access to models f...

Priya Nair

Pub. 22 Jul

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AI & ML 6 min

AWS Commits $1 Billion to Embedded AI Engineers as the Enterprise Fight Shifts to Deployment

AWS has committed US$1 billion to a Forward Deployed Engineering organisation that embeds its engineers inside customer...

Sarah Chew

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ByteDance Launches Seedream 5.0 Pro, an Image Model That Outputs Editable Layers

ByteDance has launched Seedream 5.0 Pro, a professional image-generation and editing model that breaks a single render i...

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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Releases Inkling, Its First Open-Weight Model

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines has released Inkling, its first model: an open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts sys...

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Moonshot Releases Kimi K3, the Largest Open-Weight Model Yet, With Weights Due 27 July

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model it calls the largest open-weight system built to date,...

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Cybersecurity 5 min

Japan Logged 19,417 Data-Breach Reports in FY2025 — What the Second-Highest Total on Record Does and Doesn't Tell You

Japan's privacy regulator recorded 19,417 breach notifications in FY2025, the second-highest on record but down 7.6% yea...

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Two Rival Powers, One Police Force: Researchers Say China- and India-Linked Groups Separately Spied on Pakistani Law Enforcement

SentinelLabs reports that suspected China-nexus and India-nexus groups ran separate espionage campaigns against Pakistan...

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Cybersecurity 5 min

Taiwan Charges Two Executives Over a LINE-Account Leasing Scheme Prosecutors Link to Chinese Cyber-Espionage

Taiwanese investigators have issued deferred prosecution orders against two executives who, prosecutors allege, leased l...

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Cybersecurity 6 min

£29 Million of Damage From a Phone Call: Two Scattered Spider Members Jailed Over the TfL Hack

Two Scattered Spider members were sentenced to five and a half years each on 16 July for the 2024 Transport for London a...

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Microsoft's Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday: 600-Plus Fixes, Two Live Zero-Days, and a Triage Problem

Microsoft's July update fixed more than 600 CVEs — its biggest ever — including two zero-days already under attack in AD...