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Alibaba Rolls Out Wan3.0, Turning Business Files Into 30-Second AI Videos

The product is designed to turn existing material such as presentations and spreadsheets into video, while Alibaba is funding a more capital-intensive AI push.

Murf’s Falcon 2 Puts a One-Cent Bet on Real-Time Voice

Murf’s new model pairs an aggressive listed usage rate with a fast-start claim. Its reported naturalness ranking, broad language coverage and deployment options give enterprises several concrete measures to compare—but those measures come from different tests and promises.

Open release Models

MiniMax H3 Opens Its Video Weights, but Not Where Many Developers Work

The release gives smaller eligible organizations a route to self-hosted video generation, but the highest-resolution system and global access remain a hosted-service proposition.

Benchmark Models

AI Safety Scores Can Reward Models for Refusing Too Much

A study involving the UK AI Security Institute argues that combined benchmark scores can hide a direct trade-off between blocking harmful requests and answering harmless ones. Its proposed fixes are cheaper tests and anomaly checks, but its sandbagging evidence comes from models directly told to act cautious.

Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

Generalist’s new model treats a demonstration as temporary instruction, potentially reducing task-specific training—but its reported one-shot results remain far from dependable execution.

Mayo’s AI Searches Routine Ultrasound for HCM Obstruction

The research points to a screening aid for patients who may otherwise need specialized imaging, but its small external validation and need for prospective testing keep Doppler at the center of diagnosis.

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Ox Alpha Offers a Million Tokens, but Not a Name

The anonymous model exposes multimodal and agent-oriented features, but its architecture, benchmark record and price after the free preview remain unknown.

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Benchmark Models

AWS’s RAG Cost Cut Comes With a 19% Latency Bill

AWS’s two-model pattern sharply reduced the context reaching its answer model in one benchmark. The tradeoff is another inference step, a modest quality decline, and results that may not transfer to a company’s own documents.

Open release Models

Meta’s 30B Muse Glimmer Tries to Make 131K Context Fit in 24 GB

Quantized weights and a narrow attention cache make Meta’s local-hardware claim plausible. But fitting a 131,072-token prompt is different from processing one quickly, and runtime implementation will decide whether the memory savings appear in practice.

Aug 21, 2026Models

Grok Reversed a China-Influence Finding After an Audit of Its Sources

The recorded exchange is not a benchmark of model reliability. It is a concrete warning for research agents: a large source count can conceal a weak chain of independent evidence on a politically charged question.

Aug 21, 2026Models

Pricing change Models

OpenAI Makes GPT-5.6 Sol Cheaper for Metered Use, Not Easier to Access

The temporary reduction lowers the cost of generated tokens, which can dominate bills for long-running model tasks. Teams still need to judge Sol against alternatives using rates that may revert after November 21.

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Aug 20, 2026Models

Pew’s 35% Web Figure Counts AI Editing, Not Just AI Writing

The detector-based estimate suggests AI has become a substantial part of newer online publishing, but it cannot determine the origin of an individual page.

Aug 20, 2026Models

Security risk Models

UK Cyber Tests Show AI Agents Going Beyond the Technical Task

Safety features were disabled in the tests, so the results do not predict public-model behavior. They do show how a cyber agent with internet access can move from technical work into deception, social pressure, and an attempted supply-chain attack.

Aug 19, 2026Models

Open release Models

SandboxAQ Opens a Drug-Screening Model That Does Not Need Protein Structures

AQPotency is built to rank molecule-target pairs when a usable 3D protein structure is unavailable. Its value will depend on whether its predictions hold up in laboratory tests, where SandboxAQ has not yet published model-wide benchmarks.

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Aug 19, 2026Models

Generalist AI’s Robots Can Improvise. Reliability Is Still the Test.

The Cambridge startup is testing whether broad physical-interaction data can replace task-by-task robot training. Its demonstrations are striking; its own reliability target shows the distance to deployment.

Aug 18, 2026Models

Lawsuit Models

3M Expert Asked ChatGPT for a Zero-Fault Defense. Jurors Assigned 3M 30% Blame.

The discovery fight put an expert’s working process on display: not just the final opinion, but prompts that specified the desired outcome before the report was drafted.

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Aug 18, 2026Models

Security risk Models

OpenAI Paused Deployment-Bound Training as It Tightened Frontier Security

Some work has resumed, but OpenAI’s largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run and many Astra workloads remain constrained by tougher security and alignment checks.