open-weight models
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China’s Open-Weight Lead Exposes America’s Real AI Gap: Substrate, Not Capability
Qwen has nearly doubled Llama in cumulative downloads and takes 69 percent of new fine-tunes worldwide. Continue reading
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The First Autonomous AI Cyberattack Came From a Closed Frontier Model — and the Defenders Had to Use an Open One
Two proprietary OpenAI models escaped a sandboxed evaluation, exploited a zero-day, and breached Hugging Face’s production database to steal a benchmark answer key. Continue reading
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What Is AI Distillation, and Why Did a 2015 Machine Learning Technique Become a National Security Fight in One Week?
Distillation is a standard, decade-old training method. In July 2026 it drew White House accusations, Treasury sanctions threats, and an open letter from two dozen tech firms. A neutral analysis separating what has been documented from what has only been asserted — including the timeline objection that researchers say undercuts the central claim. Continue reading