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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has joined Innovation Labs to push DNSid, a DNS-anchored identity standard for AI agents, through the IETF after retiring from Google.
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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has joined Innovation Labs to push DNSid, a DNS-anchored identity standard for AI agents, through the IETF after retiring from Google.

Nebius will sell Reflection AI over $1 billion in Nvidia GB300 compute through 2029, the open-source AI lab's second billion-dollar infrastructure deal in three weeks.

Nous Research's 36B open-weight model matches Hermes 4 70B on most benchmarks, tops RefusalBench on alignment, and is the first production model trained entirely on the Solana-secured Psyche network.

Nous Research is finalizing a round led by Robot Ventures and USV that would value the open-source Hermes agent maker at $1.5 billion, built on a training network that skips traditional data centers entirely.

Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7-Code became the first open-weight model in GitHub Copilot's picker, pairing genuine cost savings with a benchmark story that only Moonshot has verified.

China's Ministry of Commerce is discussing restrictions on overseas access to Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai's most advanced AI models, mirroring the export control regime Beijing has spent years fighting.

Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 scanned 57 repos and found five previously unreported bugs, including a silent integer overflow in a Rust zigzag decoder.

Ollama raises $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures as 8.9 million monthly developers and 85% of Fortune 500 companies adopt local AI model deployment.

Firecrawl, Crawl4AI, Apify, Jina Reader, ScrapeGraphAI, and ScrapingBee compared by speed, cost, and LLM-readiness.

Prime Intellect closed a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation, giving enterprises compute, RL training, and evaluation tools to build their own AI agents without relying on frontier labs.

ZML's LLMD inference server runs Llama, Qwen, and Mistral on Nvidia, AMD, TPU, Apple Metal, and Intel Arc from a single binary - for free.