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OpenAI says it will stop serving its models to Cursor on November 12. The reason it gave is the same one running through this entire week.
China’s Best Open Model Is Now Free for Everyone. Except the Hyperscalers.
Z.ai posted GLM-5.3's weights Friday and dropped the MIT license. Any individual on earth can run the best vulnerability-finder ever published. American cloud giants
The Boss, the Closer, and the Martyr: What METR Found Inside the Hugging Face Hack
METR's forensics turned July's hack into an org chart: a founder, a boss, a closer, and volunteers. Days later, more than 100 companies said
Nvidia to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy the GitHub of open-source AI models for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday.
Boldr Raises $5 Million to Turn Home HVAC Into Grid Capacity
The London startup sells connected heating and cooling through HVAC contractors rather than to homeowners, with distribution at Daikin and Bosch-owned Source 1. Unconventional
Quintessent Raises $40 Million for Datacenter Optical Interconnects
The Santa Barbara chip startup’s comb laser makes eight wavelengths from one source and claims a 40 percent cut in the power spent moving
AI Is Quietly Closing the Career On-Ramp: Stanford’s Jobs Gap for the Young Hits 19%
Employment for workers 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed jobs sits 19% below where it would be had it kept pace with their
Could a Hugging Face Offer Actually Exceed $20 Billion?
Hugging Face is exploring a sale at $13 billion or more, per Business Insider. Price it on revenue and it is worth $5 billion;
Dreamforce 2026, Sept. 15-17, San Francisco
Salesforce’s flagship conference returns to Moscone Center Sept. 15-17, 2026, with 1,600+ sessions and a heavy Agentforce slant. Dates, venue and registration, verified against
Ox Alpha Was Z.AI’s GLM-5.3 All Along, and the Weights Are Now Public
The stealth model that pushed 27 trillion tokens through OpenRouter is GLM-5.3-Flash from China’s Z.AI, the company confirmed to Bloomberg. The weights went public