#Open Source
AINvidia Agrees to Hugging Face Acquisition at $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, in a deal that would deepen Nvidia's reach into open-source AI.
AICloudflare Launches Kitesurf - a Browser Built From Scratch for AI Agents, Not Humans
Cloudflare built Kitesurf in 12 weeks. No Chromium, no tabs, no themes - just a browser for AI agents that runs on Workers and uses up to 7x less compute.
AIAlibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max, Its Most Powerful Open AI Model Yet
Alibaba has announced Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date. The open-weight model supports text, images, and video while introducing a 1 million-token context window and improved efficiency.
SecurityHackers Are Actively Exploiting Two Patched WordPress Flaws - Up to 90 Million Sites at Risk
Two critical WordPress flaws are under active exploit. WP2Shell needs no login and no plugins to take full control of a site. Update to 7.0.2 or 6.9.5 now.
SecurityHugging Face Hacked by an Autonomous AI Agent - US LLMs Blocked Defenders, So GLM 5.2 Ran the IR
Hugging Face discloses a July 2026 security incident: autonomous AI agent attack, US LLM guardrails blocked forensics, GLM 5.2 ran the IR on-prem.
AIQwen3.8 Goes Live With 2.4T Parameters - Alibaba Claims Second to Fable 5, Open Weights Coming
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 preview lands with 2.4T parameters and multimodal support. Alibaba claims second to Fable 5. Open weights are promised but have no date.
AINVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Hits #1 on RTEB - Three Open Models for Production RAG and Agentic Retrieval
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Embed ranks #1 on RTEB. Three open commercial models - 8B hits 78.46 NDCG@10, 1B hits 72.38 - with 32K context and code retrieval training.
AIKimi K3 Is the World's First Open 3T Model - Beats GPT-5.6 Sol on Coding at $3 Per Million Tokens
Kimi K3 is live today - Moonshot's 2.8T open model beats GPT-5.6 Sol on GPU kernel work, offers a $3/MTok API, and drops full weights July 27.
AITen Japanese Robotics Giants - FANUC, Sony, Kawasaki - Just Joined NVIDIA's Cosmos Coalition
NVIDIA confirmed 10 Japanese industrial firms - including FANUC, Sony, and Kawasaki - are joining its Cosmos Coalition to build physical AI for manufacturing. Kawasaki also starts an AI shipyard with NVIDIA digital twins.
IndustryApple Quietly Acquired SigScalr, the Startup Behind Open-Source Observability Tool SigLens
Apple acquired assets and employees from SigScalr, the maker of open-source observability tool SigLens. Deal closed March 12. No financial terms disclosed.
AIOllama Raises $65M Series B, Now at 8.9 Million Developers
Ollama raised $65M Series B, led by Theory Ventures and Benchmark. The platform counts 8.9 million developers and adds nearly 1M installs weekly.
SecurityProton VPN Review 2026: Swiss Privacy, Open Source, and a Gentler Renewal Trap
Proton VPN pairs Swiss jurisdiction and open-source apps with five public no-logs audits. Verified pricing, real strengths, and the honest catches.