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Bloomberg ·

Open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February

Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion …

Juro Osawa / The Information ·

Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models

Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded …

@alibaba_qwen ·

Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding

We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·

DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where "everything is a plugin" that can be swapped out as a plugin

DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.

Tom Wilson / Financial Times ·

Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July

AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters ·

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multiyear deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models

IBM (IBM.N) and startup Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale artificial intelligence cluster …

New York Times ·

Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper

Developers built Sunflower, an artificial intelligence tool customized for Ugandan languages, using a Chinese model.

Reuters ·

Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details

China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …

Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark …

Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·

OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more

Amid concerns about AI models' cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its "Patch the Planet" …

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