[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing
a great week for open models continues.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval
🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences
Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.
Newer Models, Same Advantage
[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
Leveraging unlabelled data for generalizable neural population decoding
Robust and accurate neural decoders are integral to neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces and closed-loop experiments. Recent work has shown that tokenizing neural data at the spike level facilitates multi-session pretraining and delivers state-of-the-art decoding performance....
What building Shippy taught us about building agents
Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.
Early Adoption of Agentic Coding Tools by GitHub Projects
Agentic coding tools are increasingly capable of generating and submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, introducing new forms of human-agent collaboration in software development. While prior studies have examined PR-level outcomes of agent-generated contributions, less is known about...
Improving Wind and Solar Power Prediction with Efficient Wrapper-based Feature Selection: An Empirical Study
With rising global energy demand and growing awareness of climate change and its impacts, the share of renewable energies in the global energy mix continues to grow. Unlike conventional power generation, the output of renewable energy sources cannot be controlled as consistently due to their...
PlumeQuant: Uncertainty-aware consistency assessment of methane plume masks and emission-rate estimates
Imaging spectrometers increasingly distribute source-resolved methane plume products in which the plume mask, integrated mass enhancement (IME), plume length, emission rate, and uncertainty are physically and algorithmically linked. Using 63 EMIT-derived Carbon Mapper plume records from 27 scenes,...
Cyclone: Diffusion Model for Cycle-Consistent Weather Editing from Unpaired Driving Data
Reliable perception under diverse weather conditions remains a major challenge for autonomous driving systems. A common strategy to improve robustness is either to synthesize adverse weather conditions for training perception models or to apply weather-removal techniques to recover clean inputs....
[AINews] not much happened today
a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026
At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.
6 months to live for open models
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.