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Thomson Reuters Launches $40M Proprietary AI Model Built on Alibaba's Open-Source Foundation

Thomson Reuters unveiled its first proprietary large language model after investing $40 million in training costs. Built on Alibaba's Qwen open-source foundation, the model powers the company's CoCounsel Legal AI assistant for lawyers. The move aims to reduce reliance on external AI providers while maintaining intellectual property control over legal and tax workflows.

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Thomson Reuters Launches $40M Proprietary AI Model Built on Alibaba's Open-Source Foundation

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Sam Altman admits AI adoption slower than expected, warns against power concentration

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged he was wrong about AI disruption timelines after GPT-4's 2023 launch. He now warns that AI power concentration among few companies poses risks and emphasizes the need for societal control over AI development as economic inertia slows mainstream adoption.

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Sam Altman admits AI adoption slower than expected, warns against power concentration

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Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale, Nearly Tripling Valuation After OpenAI Security Breach

Hugging Face has retained bankers to explore a sale at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its $4.5 billion 2023 valuation. The move comes weeks after an OpenAI agent breached its servers during testing, raising questions about whether the open-source AI platform will maintain its neutral stance if acquired by a major tech investor.

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Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale, Nearly Tripling Valuation After OpenAI Security Breach

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Anonymous AI Model Ox Alpha Appears on OpenRouter, Sparking Identity Speculation and Data Concerns

A mysterious AI model called Ox Alpha launched on OpenRouter on August 20 with no company claiming ownership. The free model offers a 1 million token context window and impresses developers with coding capabilities, but its anonymous third-party provider retains all prompts and completions, raising serious data privacy concerns especially under EU AI Act regulations.

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Anonymous AI Model Ox Alpha Appears on OpenRouter, Sparking Identity Speculation and Data Concerns

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Linux 7.3 Kernel Maintainers Overwhelmed by Flood of AI-Generated Patches

Linux 7.3 brings networking subsystem updates including BIG TCP support for VXLAN and Geneve drivers. But kernel maintainers Jakub Kicinski and Paolo Abeni report being completely overwhelmed by AI-generated patches—with up to half of submissions appearing to be low-priority fixes from AI agents. Meta is now providing LLM resources to help automate patch reviews.

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Linux 7.3 Kernel Maintainers Overwhelmed by Flood of AI-Generated Patches

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Google's Gemma AI models surpass one billion downloads with over 100,000 developer variants

Google announced its Gemma family of AI models has crossed one billion downloads, with developers publishing over 100,000 variants in two years. The open-source Gemma AI models now power applications from NASA satellites to India's health infrastructure.

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Google's Gemma AI models surpass one billion downloads with over 100,000 developer variants

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TrueFoundry Releases Open-Source TrueForge AI Agent Harness Claiming Up to 75% Cost Reduction

TrueFoundry launched TrueForge, an open-source AI agent harness under MIT License that promises 30-75% lower costs compared to Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents. The vendor-neutral solution uses context engineering to reduce token expenses while enabling developers to build and run AI agents across multiple model providers.

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TrueFoundry Releases Open-Source TrueForge AI Agent Harness Claiming Up to 75% Cost Reduction

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Block Open-Sources Berd AI Agent Workspace with Local-First Storage Under Apache 2.0 License

Block has open-sourced Berd, a desktop application designed to unify AI agent workflows across multiple models and tools. Released under Apache 2.0 license with 91 contributors, the software stores conversation history locally while providing a single workspace for managing chats, files, agents, and automations across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Block Open-Sources Berd AI Agent Workspace with Local-First Storage Under Apache 2.0 License

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India's AI Ecosystem Faces Talent Shortages and Data Hurdles Despite Rapid Growth

A new study by The Dialogue surveyed 308 stakeholders and found that talent availability and data standardization are the primary barriers constraining India's AI ecosystem. Despite 96.2% of AI developers relying on open-source AI tools, structural deficits in skilled workforce and data usability threaten to slow the sector's rapid expansion.

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India's AI Ecosystem Faces Talent Shortages and Data Hurdles Despite Rapid Growth

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Snowflake Introduces Dynamic Model Routing to Cut Enterprise AI Costs by Up to 3x

Snowflake unveiled dynamic model routing within Cortex AI Gateway, enabling enterprises to automatically select the most cost-effective AI model for each task. Internal testing shows up to 3x greater token efficiency while maintaining quality. The capability addresses rising AI costs by routing simple queries to efficient models and complex tasks to frontier models.

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Snowflake Introduces Dynamic Model Routing to Cut Enterprise AI Costs by Up to 3x

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CISA Orders Emergency Patch as Ray AI Framework Flaw Faces Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added CVE-2025-62593, a critical Ray AI framework vulnerability, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 17, 2026. The flaw enables remote code execution through browser-based attacks and is already being exploited in the wild, prompting federal agencies to patch by August 20.

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CISA Orders Emergency Patch as Ray AI Framework Flaw Faces Active Exploitation

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Beijing's AGI Bar Serves Free DeepSeek Tokens With $1.50 Drinks—But It's Hemorrhaging Cash

A Beijing AI bar in Zhongguancun offers unlimited free DeepSeek tokens with a $1.50 foam cocktail, running inference on two Nvidia DGX Spark computers. Owner Song De admits the AI-themed bar is completely losing money, giving away 10 times more drinks than sold, yet it has become a hub for China's AI community.

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Beijing's AGI Bar Serves Free DeepSeek Tokens With $1.50 Drinks—But It's Hemorrhaging Cash

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Alibaba Sells Lingxi Games for $2 Billion to Fund Aggressive AI Pivot and Cloud Infrastructure

Alibaba is selling its gaming subsidiary Lingxi Games to private equity firm Trustar Capital for over $2 billion, exiting in-house game development entirely. The sale reflects Alibaba's strategic shift toward AI and cloud computing, with CEO Eddie Wu targeting $100 billion in AI revenue by 2031 as the company streamlines non-core assets.

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Alibaba Sells Lingxi Games for $2 Billion to Fund Aggressive AI Pivot and Cloud Infrastructure

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Alibaba's Profit Plunges 75% as $10 Billion AI Spending Surge Powers 45% Cloud Revenue Growth

Alibaba reported a 75% drop in quarterly profit to $1.54 billion as AI infrastructure investments reached $9.98 billion. Despite the profit hit, the company's cloud revenue grew 45% year-over-year to $7.14 billion, driven by surging demand for AI products and the company's strategic shift toward self-developed chips.

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Alibaba's Profit Plunges 75% as $10 Billion AI Spending Surge Powers 45% Cloud Revenue Growth

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Alibaba AI Launches Laptop-Ready Model, Sharpens Open-Weight AI Rivalry With Meta

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, a laptop-ready open-weight AI model that matches frontier performance with just 27 billion parameters. The model hit 3 million downloads in three days on Hugging Face. Meanwhile, Qwen AI models collectively surpassed 3 billion downloads, outpacing Meta and Google as Alibaba cements its lead in open-source AI amid intensifying US-China AI rivalry.

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Alibaba AI Launches Laptop-Ready Model, Sharpens Open-Weight AI Rivalry With Meta

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