Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a German-English model with a 78 GB weight footprint
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri for self-hosted German-English workloads, with sparse computation but substantial GPU memory requirements.
David Robinson leaves OpenAI and argues safety needs more than faster iteration
David Robinson resigned from OpenAI and said its sprint-driven culture cannot provide the rigor increasingly capable AI requires.
Simon Willison calls for default spending stops as AI agents keep the meter running
Simon Willison called for default hard spending caps, while provider documentation shows that alerts and enforced usage stops remain distinct controls.
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and Merkley propose federal restrictions on license-plate surveillance
The proposed Ban Flock Act would restrict federal access to license-plate surveillance and use funding conditions to pressure state and local agencies.
Hugging Face disables a GLM-5.3 repository labeled for offensive cyber use
Hugging Face disabled an offensive-cyber-labeled GLM-5.3 derivative but did not publish a case-specific enforcement rationale or removal date.
Google moves Gemini Pro out of AI Plus and removes Flash and Pro from free app access
Google says free personal-account Gemini users will lose Flash and Pro on October 9, while AI Plus will retain Flash but lose Pro on emailed dates.
Arizona court orders resentencing after an AI video supplied a victim’s imagined words
Arizona’s appeals court vacated a manslaughter sentence after a judge relied on generated speech presented in the victim’s voice and likeness.
Benzi reports 391 fixes in 500 coding tasks with a compiler-backed agent
Benzi’s developers report solving 391 of 500 verified coding tasks with a compiler index and a capped review pass, at $37.33 in model-generation charges.
Pope Leo renews an artists’ alliance as Anthropic’s moral-status outreach draws scrutiny
Pope Leo XIV called for an alliance to safeguard human creativity, while Anthropic’s published research continues to treat AI consciousness as unresolved.
Oscilloscope Diffusion turns existing movement into AI-stylized video with an approved budget
Uisato Studio’s hosted Oscilloscope Diffusion reinterprets existing video through AI while retaining source movement as guidance and reserving an approved rendering budget.
A false “verified source” label flipped correct answers in an authority-bias study
An authority-bias preprint reports that false answers attributed to a verified source overturned 45–88% of baseline-correct responses in seven of eight tested models.