Aug 17, 2026
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Alibaba's first Max-class open weights arrive with no vision stack, thinking locked on, and a license that names its own products.
Aug 15, 2026
Z.ai shipped its strongest cyber scores and held the weights for two weeks of hardening. The UK's security institute has already measured what hardening survives on open weights, and what a window of time is worth.
Aug 13, 2026
8 min read
Grok 4.6 Is a 2 Dollar Model Until Token 200,001
Aug 12, 2026
Microsoft handed fifty ordinary agent logs to Claude Code. It compiled them into about a hundred lines of markdown that recover, and twice beat, an entire reasoning mode.
Aug 11, 2026
An 82 percent guess rate, a 24GB fit, and a flagship going open.
