Meta has a competitive AI model but loses its open-source identity
The open-source AI movement has never lacked for options. Mistral, Falcon, and a growing field of open-weight models have been available to developers for years. But when Meta threw its weight behind Llama, something shifted. A company with three billion users, vast compute resources, and the credibility of a tech giant was now building openly, […]
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Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI
Major Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pursuing agentic AI (systems that can execute multi-step tasks autonomously and interact with software, data, and services without human instruction), and orienting the technology toward discrete industries and workflows. Alibaba’s open-source strategy for agentic AI Alibaba’s strategy centres on its Qwen AI model family, a set […]
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Microsoft unveils method to detect sleeper agent backdoors
Researchers from Microsoft have unveiled a scanning method to identify poisoned models without knowing the trigger or intended outcome. Organisations integrating open-weight large language models (LLMs) face a specific supply chain vulnerability where distinct memory leaks and internal attention patterns expose hidden threats known as “sleeper agents”. These poisoned models contain backdoors that lie dormant […]
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Masumi Network: How AI-blockchain fusion adds trust to burgeoning agent economy
2026 will see forward-thinking organisations building out their squads of AI agents across roles and functions. But amid the rush, there is another aspect to consider. One of IDC’s enterprise technology predictions for the coming five years, published in October, was fascinating. “By 2030, up to 20% of [global 1000] organisations will have faced lawsuits, […]
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