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Alibaba Opens Qwen3.8-Max to Global Users Ahead of an Open Weights Release Next Week
Alibaba made its 2.4 trillion parameter flagship broadly accessible worldwide through Model Studio and QwenWork and said open weights for the frontier class model will follow next week, per the South China Morning Post.
read →Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman Takes Leave From Toronto to Join OpenAI on AI Safety
Newly minted Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman announced he will take leave from the University of Toronto to research AI safety at OpenAI, arguing that mathematical certainty for AI systems is the most important problem of our time.
read →California AI Transparency Act Becomes the First US State AI Content Watermark Law
California SB 942 went operative August 2, requiring C2PA-compatible provenance watermarks on AI-generated images, video, and audio from providers with over one million monthly California users. Fines start at $5,000 per violation per day, and Midjourney is the highest-profile generator on record as non-compliant at the deadline.
read →OpenAI Previews Astra, a Multi-Agent Model Family That Solved Ten Unsolved Math Problems
OpenAI privately showcased its next model family, Astra, to Washington policymakers, revealing an internal version that resolved ten long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The system is designed for hours-long multi-agent collaboration on research, coding, and scientific tasks, and will undergo federal government review before any public release.
read →Thinking Machines Releases Inkling-Small, a 276B Open-Weight Model Within One Point of Its Flagship
Inkling-Small is a 276-billion-parameter MoE model with only 12 billion active parameters, multimodal inputs across text, image, and audio, and a 1M-token context window, all under Apache 2.0. It scores 80.2 percent on SWE-bench Verified, narrowly topping the 975-billion-parameter flagship, and runs at roughly a quarter of the inference cost.
read →EU AI Act Transparency Obligations Enter Force Today, Requiring Chatbot Disclosures and AI Content Watermarks
Article 50 of the EU AI Act became enforceable on August 2, 2026: AI chatbots must now disclose they are not human, AI-generated content must carry machine-readable watermarks, and deepfakes require explicit labeling. Non-compliance carries penalties of up to 35 million euros or 7 percent of global annual turnover, enforced by national authorities across all 27 member states.
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Caylent builds its own agent orchestrator and cuts a 2,600-hour migration to 220
Instead of buying a migration tool, Caylent built a multi-agent orchestrator on the Claude Agent SDK that runs inside the customer's own cloud and cut one engagement from 2,600 engineering hours to about 220.
Eve makes the buy-a-vertical-vendor case for small plaintiff law firms
Plaintiff firms with no in-house ML team buy their agents off the shelf, and Eve customers report large jumps in lead conversion, case value, and drafting speed.
Suzano puts a natural-language-to-SQL agent in front of 50,000 staff
A Brazilian pulp-and-paper maker built a Gemini agent that turns plain-language questions into SQL, which Google Cloud says cut query time by about 95 percent for 50,000 employees.
03 / Latest project
MomMe, a lifestyle community, web & iOS
A full lifestyle community platform, web portal and native iOS app, taken end to end, with an AI moderation flow keeping the community safe at scale.
- MomMe web portal + iOS application
- Full lifestyle community with 3,000+ registered users
- AI moderation flow
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