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FrontierMeta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, 30 billion, Apache 2.0The new model from Meta Superintelligence Labs is multimodal, built for agents and released under the cleanest license there is. Weights on Hugging Face, package on Ollama, zero geographic strings - Europe included.SecurityMozilla revoked its Firefox signing key after a copy landed in a private repositoryThe key used to sign Linux packages of Firefox and Thunderbird was revoked on August 10. The cause was a subkey inadvertently committed to a private Mozilla repository. No sign of unauthorised access, and the key was replaced anyway.ControlRealistic AI renderings of buildings now need a labelArticle 50 came into force on August 2 and lawyers say realistic AI visualisations of unbuilt buildings fall under the deepfake definition. Fines reach 15 million euro or 3 per cent of annual turnover.RoboticsA horned centaur robot built so it cannot fit through a human doorCalifornia's Satyress showed Threehalves: a two-metre teleoperated robot with four legs and tools instead of hands, for work that kills people. Its safety is not in the software but in the geometry.FrontierQwen released 27 billion under Apache 2.0, with a 2.4 trillion giant next to itOn 3 August we wrote that Alibaba was showing Qwen3.8-Max and promising its weights the following week. The promise has been kept: on 8 August the giant goes up for download, and three days before it, a small 27 billion model under Apache 2.0.AudioMiniMax released a model that writes a full five-minute song, and handed out the weightsNot a thirty-second clip, but a song with a beginning, a middle and an end that holds its theme all the way through. Underneath sit two language models on different levels, and the big one started life as Qwen3-8B.FrontierAnthropic touched the guard, not the model - and biological refusals fell by about 85%Since 7 August, Fable 5 answers health and study questions far more often. The change isn't in the model itself, but in the rules of the classifier that decides what counts as dual-use. Virology, toxicology and molecular design stay closed.SecurityOne public issue could reach a workflow's secrets - in Claude Code and Gemini CLI alikeAt Black Hat, researchers walked through the chain: a stranger with no permissions opens an issue in a public repo, and the coding agent walks tokens and keys out the door. The patches shipped back in April and June - what's new is that the chain was told in public.
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