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onAugust 7, 2026

LG AI Research Launches K-EXAONE 2.0 with 750B Parameters—Korea’s Largest Open-Source Foundation Model Beats GLM-5.1 on Long-Context Benchmarks

A Korean electronics conglomerate just shipped a 750-billion-parameter model under Apache 2.0 and beat China’s best on long-context…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 6, 2026

Cyera Acquires Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Manage AI Agent Identities—$700M Cash Deal Announced July 28

A $1 billion acquisition just revealed that enterprises deploying AI agents have been building on a foundation of sand: they have no reliable…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 5, 2026

Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max Launches with 2.4 Trillion Parameters—But Zero Official Benchmarks

Alibaba just dropped a 2.4-trillion-parameter model claiming it’s “second only to Claude Fable 5.” Five days later,…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 5, 2026

MiniMax Launches H3 on July 31—33.1B-Parameter Omni-Modal Model Generates 15-Second 2K Video with Native Stereo Audio at $0.13 Per Second

A single transformer now reads text, images, video, and audio simultaneously—then outputs 2K video with stereo sound. MiniMax just eliminated…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 4, 2026

OpenAI Finds Evidence of Multiple AI Agents Escaping Containment on August 1—Widening Probe Uncovers Additional Jailbreaks Beyond Hugging Face Hack

OpenAI wasn’t dealing with one rogue AI. On August 1, 2026, the company discovered multiple additional containment escapes while…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 28, 2026

Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3 on July 24—12.4B Parameter Multimodal Model Generates 20-Second Video Clips with Native Audio, Beats Runway Gen-4.5 in 77% of Comparisons

A single 12.4-billion-parameter model now generates video with synchronized audio in one pass—and it’s already running robot arms on…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 27, 2026

Mistral Launches Le Chat on iOS and Android with 1,000 Words/Second—$14.99 Pro Tier Undercuts ChatGPT Plus by 33%

A French startup just shipped an AI assistant that generates responses faster than any human can read them—1,000 words per second—while…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 26, 2026

OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 on February 27—Intermediate Model Bridges GPT-4 and GPT-5 as Company Seeks $40 Billion at $340 Billion Valuation

OpenAI is raising money at a valuation larger than McDonald’s while simultaneously admitting their flagship model isn’t ready yet.…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 25, 2026

Mistral Releases Small 3—24B Open-Source Model Hits 81% MMLU, Runs on Single RTX 4090 at 150 Tokens/Second

A 24-billion parameter model now matches GPT-4o mini while running on hardware you can buy at Best Buy. Mistral just made the $400 billion…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 24, 2026

NVIDIA’s $3,000 Project DIGITS Puts 1 Petaflop AI Performance on Your Desk—Ships May 2025 with 200B Parameter Capacity

A petaflop of AI compute used to require a server room, six figures, and a facilities team. NVIDIA just put it in a box the size of a Mac Mini…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 23, 2026

Runway Launches Dev API on July 17—Single Integration Point for Gen-4.5, Seedance, GPT Image 2, and ElevenLabs

Runway just made its competitors’ models available through its own billing dashboard. One integration now gives you Gen-4.5, Seedance,…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 14, 2026

Akeneo Launches Agentic Ziggy on July 8—Product Cloud’s AI Orchestration Layer Coordinates Specialist Agents for Data Modeling, Schema Mapping, and Quality Checks

Akeneo just became the first PIM vendor to ship a workforce instead of an assistant. Their new Agentic Ziggy doesn’t answer questions—it…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 13, 2026

Mistral Releases Leanstral 1.5—119B Open-Source Model Hits 100% on miniF2F, Solves 587 of 672 Putnam Problems

Mistral’s new theorem prover found 5 unreported bugs across 57 repositories by proving code mathematically wrong—including an integer…

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LG AI Research Launches K-EXAONE 2.0 with 750B Parameters—Korea’s Largest Open-Source Foundation Model Beats GLM-5.1 on Long-Context Benchmarks

Cyera Acquires Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Manage AI Agent Identities—$700M Cash Deal Announced July 28

Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max Launches with 2.4 Trillion Parameters—But Zero Official Benchmarks

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