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05- 01AlephAlpha Releases Kolibri: Open-Source MoE Model for Sovereign English-German AI
AlephAlpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active parameters, designed for sovereign and regulated domains with a focus on German language performance.
Hacker News
- 02Microsoft and Hugging Face Release ThinkingBox Benchmark Evaluating AI Agents by Backend State
The new benchmark evaluates 507 stateful business workflows by verifying final database states rather than tool call success, revealing that 67% of agent failures occur despite clean termination.
HuggingFace Blog
- 03Chatham Financial Uses OpenAI Codex to Cut Trade Validation Time to Under 4 Minutes
Chatham Financial uses OpenAI Codex to reduce trade validation time from 30 minutes to under 4 minutes and integrates GPT-5.6 models into its internal platforms.
OpenAI Blog
- 04OpenAI Releases Practical Guide for Optimizing GPT-6 Family Models in Production
OpenAI has released a comprehensive model guide for the GPT-6 family, detailing strategies for managing context costs, selecting reasoning levels, and handling long-running workflows across GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna.
OpenAI Blog
- 05C2PA Spec Flaw Allows Time-Stamp Forgery via Arbitrary Byte Exclusions
Researchers demonstrated that C2PA's support for arbitrary byte exclusions allows attackers to sign empty data, enabling post-signature tampering while preserving valid Time Stamp Authority (TSA) proofs.
Hacker News
Rising repositories and models
03- Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
78B MoE Model with 3.46B Active Parameters per Token for Low-Cost Inference
- Infatoshi/GLM-5.3-UNCENSORED-EXL3-3.0bpw
Reducing Memory Footprint of GLM-5.3 MoE Model with 3.0bpw Quantization
- Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF
262K Context Support, GGUF Quantization of the 29B MoE Model