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EPAA said it works with regulators, and counts Commonwealth Bank, Mastercard, PayPal, and Swift among its members.

Perplexity's WANDR is an open benchmark and evaluation harness with 500 evidence-heavy tasks. It tests whether research agents can discover many qualifying entities and back each one with cited, re-verifiable evidence. Perplexity Search as Code leads at 0.363 soft F1 and 0.133 hard F1.

Three open MoE flagships face off on measured intelligence, MIT versus Modified MIT weights, and real serving cost The post Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation.

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AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adding Microsoft as newest buyer CNBC

DeepSeek's V4 model features a 1 million-token context window and new peak/off-peak pricing.

Feyn Labs has released SQRL, a family of text-to-SQL models that inspect a database with read-only probes before committing to a query. The flagship SQRL-35B-A3B reports 70.6% execution accuracy on BIRD Dev, edging Claude Opus 4.6, and distills into self-hostable 4B and 9B checkpoints.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable to leading frontier AI models and second only to Anthropic PBC’s Fable 5.

ZTE's OEX supernode features a 'three-zero cable' design and supports multi-chip GPU combinations.

Biren Technology was founded in 2019 and markets BR100 and BR104 AI GPUs.

Meoo Team helps manage identities, procurement, permissions, and shared team assets for enterprises.

BrainCo raised about US$295 million and showcased robotic arms controlled by EEG signals.

TSMC confirms significant yield and performance improvements in A14 update. strong interest from AI/HPC and smartphone customers Tom's Hardware

Zyphra released ZUNA1.1 on July 16, 2026, under the Apache 2.0 license. The 380M masked diffusion autoencoder reconstructs, denoises, and upsamples scalp-EEG across arbitrary channel layouts. It accepts variable-length inputs from 0.5 to 30 seconds, against ZUNA1's fixed five seconds.

China’s Moonshot AI unveiled a freely available artificial intelligence model that seemed to narrow the gap with cutting-edge offerings from U.S. tech companies.

The chipmaker is fleshing out its physical AI ecosystem, from foundation models and edge hardware to software, developer tools and industrial partnerships.

Kimi K3 offers enterprises a 2.8 trillion parameter open model. But for U.S.-based companies, deciding whether to use it is complicated.

China’s Xi Jinping launches new AI alliance: What is it? Al Jazeera

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed on July 15 and 16, 2026. The collection has three open checkpoints: Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16, Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16, and Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-NVFP4. The 8B ranks #1 on RTEB at 78.46 average NDCG@10.

Tencent Cloud said SkillPay links skill providers with AI agents that use those skills and ties usage to payment.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026. It is a 2.8-trillion-parameter open MoE model built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, activating 16 of 896 experts.

While red teaming is standard practice, using humans and AI to test the security of new models is novel. Enterprises should still ensure the model they use aligns with their business and security workflows.

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex TechCrunch