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FrontierLFM2.5: 2.6 billion parameters trained for agent work right on the deviceLiquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B - a model built from the ground up for agents on phones and laptops: it follows instructions, handles tools, delivers 220 tokens per second on an Apple M5 Max CPU, and the weights are free on Hugging Face. According to the company, it leads its class on most agentic benchmarks.AudioFan covers on Spotify go under license: with credit and money for the original artistSpotify and Merlin - the voice of independent labels with about 15% of the global market - reached a deal for the upcoming fan cover and remix tool. Participation is the artist's choice; every derivative track carries credit, compensation, and a link back to the original. Small detail, big difference.FrontierAlibaba showed its biggest model - and promised its weights for next weekQwen3.8-Max carries 2.4 trillion parameters and a context of one million tokens, already available through the API. The real news is different: Alibaba says that in days it will release the weights freely - a top-class model anyone will be able to download.BuildersCloudflare gives the agent a computer: files, git and shell without a container for everyoneAgents Week opened with empty talk. @cloudflare/computer is the first real meat - an open library that gives the agent a file system, git, and code execution. The lightweight mode carries most of the work; a real Linux container only fires up for the heavy stuff.SecurityA second patch for N-able N-central: the first one was incomplete, and the hole is already being exploitedCISA added CVE-2026-18577 to the catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities: authentication bypass and account takeover in N-central - the tool providers use to manage other people's networks. The vulnerability is the result of an incomplete earlier fix.Control'Apple is getting this wrong': OpenAI answers the trade-secrets lawsuit by releasing the message logsApple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets allegedly carried out by former employees, and is seeking an injunction. OpenAI answered publicly, in a post titled 'Apple is getting this wrong', and attached the actual emails and messages: by their account, Apple's own people reached out to the departed engineer for help, and Apple's lawyers wrote to the wrong person.FrontierOpenAI's next model is called Astra, and it debuts with ten math resultsOpenAI published ten results on longstanding open problems in mathematics - achieved, by the company's own account, by an internal version of Astra, their next big model. Every proof is formalized in Lean, so a machine can check it. The tokens for all ten cost about $2000.DesignA typeface that tells the human one thing and the machine anotherDecoy Font hides two messages in the same letters: a human reads one, a language model reads the other. It's built on an optical illusion decades old. The author himself says the trick may not last long.
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