AI This Week: Open Weights Got Cheap and Ownable, From Decision-1 at $0.042/M to Nvidia Circling Reflection AI
What happens to an Apache 2.0 license when the lab that published it gets bought? Wednesday I wrote about Reflection AI shipping 501B open…
How to Wire Strix and Autonomous Remediation Into CI/CD Without Letting an AI Push Its Own Patch
What share of last year’s CVEs actually got exploited? Two percent. Edgescan counted 40,009 CVEs published in 2024 and 768 reported as…
Microsoft Ships Decision-1: a 9B Model Built on Qwen3.5 That Costs $0.042/M In and Nothing Out
Microsoft is charging $0.042 per million input tokens and zero for output on its newest model. The base weights come from Alibaba’s…
Bloomberg: Open-Weight Models Now Drive AI CSAM Cases, Tracked Variants Jump From Under 12 to Over 500
What happens to a safety filter when the model runs on a laptop with no network connection? One European investigator told Bloomberg the set…
The ‘AI Torture Chamber’: How One GitHub Repo Turned a 25-Model Pain Paper Into a Welfare Fight
A preprint tested 25 open models and found a “pain” direction distinguishable from fear and sadness. Seventeen days later, a…
Reflection AI Ships Beam: 501B Open-Weight MoE, 23B Active, Apache 2.0, Built at a $25B Valuation
Beam’s pitch is not size. It is that 4.6% of the model fires per token, and Reflection AI claims that buys GLM-5.2-level reasoning at…
Microsoft Agent Framework in Practice: What the Docs Promise and What –prerelease Tells You
Two .NET packages, both still documented with --prerelease on Microsoft Learn pages updated October 4 and October 7, 2026. That flag is the…
Postmortem: Azure’s Sweden Central AI Outage and the 18-Region Gateway Failure 24 Hours Later
At 10:03 UTC on 29 September 2026, Azure OpenAI stopped answering reliably in Sweden Central. The region’s whole AI data plane went with…
How to Ship Article 50 Marking Before December 2, 2026: A CTO’s Guide to the EU Transparency Code
If your AI system was on the EU market before 2 August 2026, the machine-readable marking grace period ends on 2 December 2026. The deadline…
AI This Week: Nobody Can Verify the Thing They’re Billing For, From Benchmark Decontamination to the August 2 Deadline
Ten benchmark contamination detectors fall to roughly coin-flip accuracy after one round of GRPO training. The same week, the EU AI Office…
