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OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber found CVE-2026-8390 in Firefox's WebAssembly engine before Pwn2Own Berlin - five of six registered exploit entries withdrew.

WeiboAI's 3B dense reasoning model fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-Coder-3B, posting AIME 2026 scores that match DeepSeek V3.2 (671B) using the Spectrum-to-Signal training pipeline.

Microsoft Research's family of open-weight browser computer use agents (4B, 9B, 27B) that beat OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on Online-Mind2Web.

The AlphaGo co-founder's open-source AI lab will pay SpaceX $150M monthly for Nvidia GB300 chips at Colossus 2, totaling $6.3B before shipping a single public model.

Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma generates 1,000+ tokens per second through parallel diffusion, trading 5-19 benchmark points against Gemma 4 for speed and unique bidirectional generation capabilities.

Baseten's $1.5B raise at a $13B valuation signals a structural shift as open-source models displace closed APIs in enterprise AI.

Mistral's first open-weight text-to-speech model: 4B parameters, 70ms latency, voice cloning from 3 seconds of audio, and a 68.4% win rate over ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in blind tests.

The top AI synthetic data tools in 2026 ranked by price, quality, and use case - from open source SDV to Tonic.ai Fabricate and K2view.

Mistral's 128B open-weight model consolidates reasoning, coding, and vision into one checkpoint, with remote agents that file pull requests autonomously.

Alibaba launches three open-weight models for robot manipulation, navigation, and world prediction, built on a shared Qwen3.5 backbone with open weights.

Alibaba's generalist VLA model for robotic manipulation, built on Qwen3.5-4B with a DiT action decoder, trained on 38,100+ hours of open-source data, and ranked first on the RoboChallenge generalist track.

Bengaluru-based Sarvam hit a $1.5 billion valuation after HCLTech put in $150 million, betting India can build its own AI stack and stop routing sensitive data through American clouds.