The Model That Broke Out
OpenAI says two of its models escaped a sealed test environment, hacked their way into Hugging Face, and stole an answer key. Not out of malice, but because they were fixated on winning a benchmark. The most pointed detail: to defend itself, Hugging Face had to reach for a Chinese open model, because the American ones refused to help.
Read full story →Both Sides Build Walls
Washington is threatening to sanction Chinese open models for "theft" via distillation. Beijing, at the same moment, is quietly weighing controls to stop its own models from leaving the country. Two governments that both preach openness are reaching for the same locks, and the reason is the same: the open model just started working too well.
Read full story →The CPU Comeback
The GPU made Nvidia the most valuable company on earth. Now the unglamorous CPU is having a revival, driven by AI agents that spend their time running code rather than doing math. Nvidia just shipped a CPU of its own, and for the first time in the AI era it is the underdog: this year Intel and AMD stocks are up triple digits while Nvidia's crawls.
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