Lobster Trap: The Open-Source Tool That Watches What Your AI Agents Say
Veea releases a sub-millisecond security proxy for AI agents under MIT license as new research shows 88% of organizations have experienced agent security incidents.
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IronCurtain: The Open-Source 'Firewall' for AI Agents That Might Actually Work
A veteran Google security engineer built a sandbox system that treats AI agents as fundamentally untrusted - and it could be the model for safe agent deployment.
MiniMax M2.5: The Open-Weight Model Matching Claude Opus at 1/20th the Cost
China's MiniMax releases an MIT-licensed model that rivals Claude Opus 4.6 on coding and agentic tasks. The catch: Anthropic accuses MiniMax of stealing Claude's capabilities to build it.
Open-Source AI Wins: GLM-5, OpenAI's First Open Model, and the Agentic Foundation
March 2026's open-source AI highlights: Zhipu's GLM-5 rivals GPT-5, OpenAI finally goes open, and the Linux Foundation creates a home for AI agents.
Open-Source AI Wins: Qwen3.5 Beats Its Trillion-Parameter Sibling, Mistral Goes Apache 2.0, Ollama Hits 162K Stars
This week's biggest open-source AI developments: Alibaba's efficient new model outperforms its massive predecessor, Mistral releases a 675B frontier model under permissive license, and local inference adoption accelerates
Open-Weight LLM Showdown: What Actually Runs on Your GPU in 2026
Forget 700B parameter flagships you can't run. Here are the open-weight models that deliver real performance on consumer hardware - with actual benchmarks.
Qwen3.5-Medium: Frontier AI Performance on a Gaming PC
Alibaba's new 35B model matches Claude Sonnet 4.5 on benchmarks while running locally on an RTX 4090. Here's what you need to know.
The Week Local AI Grew Up: Ollama 0.17 and llama.cpp's New Home
Ollama delivers 40% faster inference while llama.cpp finds a permanent home at Hugging Face. Two developments that secure the future of running AI on your own hardware.
Ollama 0.17 Adds OpenClaw Integration: Local AI Just Got Agentic
The popular local inference tool now installs and configures OpenClaw automatically, giving desktop users access to AI agents running Kimi-K2.5 and GLM-5 with a single command.
Taalas HC1: The AI Chip That Bakes the Model Into Silicon
A Toronto startup is etching LLM weights directly into transistors, achieving 17,000 tokens per second. The catch: you can't change the model.
Open-Source AI Wins: ggml Joins Hugging Face, GLM-5 Goes MIT, NanoClaw Hits 14K Stars
This week's biggest open-source AI developments: llama.cpp finds a permanent home, China releases a 744B parameter model under MIT license, and a secure WhatsApp AI assistant goes viral
llama.cpp Joins Hugging Face: Local AI Gets a Corporate Backer - and Keeps Its Independence
The creators of llama.cpp have joined Hugging Face to ensure long-term sustainability. The projects stay open, the community stays autonomous, and local AI gets resources it needs to compete with cloud inference.
GLM-5: China's 744B Open-Source Model Trained Entirely on Huawei Chips
Zhipu AI releases GLM-5 under MIT license, a frontier model rivaling Claude and GPT-5 while proving China can build top-tier AI without NVIDIA hardware.
Open-Weight LLM Showdown: Qwen3, Llama 4, GLM-5, and Gemma 3 on Real Hardware
Forget the marketing - here's how the latest open-weight models actually perform on your GPU, from 8GB budget cards to 24GB workstations.
Local AI Showdown: Best Open-Weight Models for Your Hardware
A tier-by-tier comparison of the top open-weight LLMs you can run locally, from 8GB laptops to 24GB gaming GPUs to Apple Silicon Macs.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5: Open Weights With Caveats
Qwen 3.5 offers a 397B MoE flagship and smaller local models under Apache 2.0, but Alibaba's benchmarks need independent testing.
Cohere's Tiny Aya: 70-Language AI That Runs on Your Phone Without Internet
A 3.35B parameter multilingual model outperforms larger competitors on underserved languages - and runs locally on consumer hardware. Privacy-first AI for the rest of the world.
Alibaba's RynnBrain: Open-Source AI That Teaches Robots to See and Think
Alibaba released RynnBrain, an open-source AI model that gives robots spatial awareness and physical reasoning. It beats Google and Nvidia on 16 benchmarks while running on just 3 billion active parameters.
This Open Source AI Does Literature Reviews Better Than GPT-4o - And You Can Run It Yourself
OpenScholar matches human expert citation accuracy while GPT-4o fabricates sources 78-90% of the time. The code, models, and 45 million paper corpus are all free to use.
Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: Scrutinizing Its 120B Claim
Tiiny AI says its 300-gram Pocket Lab runs 120B models locally. The design is plausible, but performance and privacy claims remain unverified.