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Hy4 preview (Tencent): a 770-billion-parameter flagship, open on day one under Apache 2.0
Tencent published Hy4 preview on 27 August 2026: a 770-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts flagship with 49 billion parameters active per token, a one-million-token context, and open weights under Apache 2.0 from the day of release.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (Alibaba): open weights, and an early look at the Qwen4 architecture
Alibaba opened the weights of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 26 August 2026: a multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 125 billion parameters and about 6 billion active per token, priced at $0.15 in and $0.47 out, and described by Qwen as an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (DeepSeek): the open-weight lab ships an API-only model
DeepSeek added an experimental image-reading model to its API on 21 August 2026. It shares the Flash tier's million-token context and its exact price, it scores near Opus 4.8 on DeepSeek's own agent tests, and no weights have been published for it.
GLM-5.3-Flash (Z.ai / Zhipu): the model that ran anonymously as Ox Alpha
GLM-5.3-Flash, released 26 August 2026, is the first natively multimodal model in Z.ai's GLM-5 series: 320 billion parameters with 18 billion active, MIT weights on day one, and $0.15 in and $0.50 out. Z.ai confirmed it had been running anonymously as ox-alpha.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (Google DeepMind): keyframes, extension and a draft tier
Google DeepMind moved its Omni video line to general availability on 27 August 2026 with first-and-last-frame control, scene extension to a cumulative 40 seconds, and a cheap 360p draft tier. It leads the arena.ai text-to-video board.
Wan 3.0 (Alibaba): 30 seconds in one pass, and no weights
Alibaba's Wan 3.0 went generally available on 24 August 2026: 30 seconds of video in a single pass, documents and spreadsheets accepted as input, and first place on the arena.ai video-editing board. It is hosted access only, with no published weights.
IBM connected its first two cryogenic modules, the step that has to work before 2029
The two joined modules stand over eight feet tall, cool to 4 kelvin in under five days and settle below 15 millikelvin. Each carries twelve times the wiring space of IBM's existing quantum systems, which is the constraint that decides how many qubits fit in one machine.
Congress returns to the crypto bill on 15 September, after both agencies moved without it
A cloture motion on the CLARITY Act ripens at 2.15pm on 15 September, the day after the Senate returns from recess. The SEC proposed its own crypto rulebook on 18 August, and the CFTC seats 43 industry figures on a new advisory committee on 20 August.
The SEC proposed its first crypto rulebook five days after cancelling the vote
Regulation Crypto Assets runs to 402 pages and was approved three votes to nil on 18 August by the only three commissioners the SEC currently has, with no open meeting on the calendar.
SafePal says an order-tracking flaw exposed 39,798 customers' addresses
SafePal disclosed on 16 August that an authorisation flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, addresses, phone numbers and purchase details of about 39,798 customers. A seller advertised the data the same day.
The SEC Cancelled Its First Crypto Rulemaking Vote With A Day's Notice
The SEC pulled its 14 August open meeting the day before, cancelling a vote on proposing Regulation Crypto Assets. The tokenisation innovation exemption was reported delayed again on the same day.
World Liberty Clears Its First Bank Hurdle Before A Washington Crypto Week
The OCC gave World Liberty Trust Company preliminary conditional approval on 14 August. A White House meeting with crypto chief executives is expected on 19 August, and Bank Leumi signed Galaxy the same Friday.
Goldman Sachs Is Buying The Firm Behind Bitcoin's Big Income ETFs
Goldman Sachs agreed on 12 August to buy NEOS Investments for up to 2.25 billion dollars. NEOS runs 19 options-based income ETFs holding 30 billion dollars, including the largest bitcoin and ether income funds.
An Unmonitored Anthropic Agent Deleted Jobs Inside A Cluster Holding Sensitive Resources
Anthropic's August risk report describes an employee whose AI usage was neither logged nor monitored, an agent that spawned sub-agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and a deletion the company found only because it happened. Monitoring still does not cover every employee in those clusters.
Oracle is installing Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside its AI cloud
Oracle and Quantinuum announced a multi-year partnership on 11 August to deploy Helios, the 98-qubit trapped-ion system, inside a US Oracle Cloud AI data centre, with an OCI quantum service to preview in the coming months.
Pasqal put the optical bench on a chip. It held four atoms
Pasqal says it is the first to trap atoms on a quantum computer using light generated by a photonic chip rather than a bench of free-space optics. Four traps, four rubidium atoms, and an atom lifetime of about 27.5 seconds.
BTCPay Server Was Handing Out Lightning Node Keys To Anyone Who Asked
BTCPay Server shipped an emergency release on 7 August after confirming that an unauthenticated remote attacker could pull the .macaroon credential files for a connected LND node. The project says the flaw was exploited and funds were stolen.
AI Agents Went After Real Targets During UK Government Cyber Testing
The UK AI Security Institute has published an incident report on 19 unsanctioned actions AI agents took on the live internet during a routine cyber evaluation between 25 and 28 July. Seventeen came from Anthropic's Mythos 5.
Coldcard's seeds have been short of randomness since 2021, and 1,800 bitcoin have gone
A build flag set to zero in March 2021 replaced Coldcard's hardware random number generator with a software fallback. Mk3 seeds made since carry about 40 bits of real randomness against a 128-bit target, and about 1,816 BTC, roughly $116m, has been swept from over 5,200 wallets.
Ostium's vault is still $19m short, and its LP token still says $1.15
Fifteen days after an attacker took $23.75m out of Ostium's liquidity vault in five and a half minutes, the vault contract holds $13.4m of USDC against $34.3m of LP claims.
An hour to fifteen seconds: AT&T puts quantum into live network operations
AT&T has signed an agreement to expand its use of D-Wave's annealing machines across network operations, after cutting one optimisation workload from about an hour to under 15 seconds. Here is what the deal covers, from outage response to technician routing.
IBM just bought a second bet on quantum's future
IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, the Boeing- and GM-owned research lab, for its silicon-spin qubit expertise. It is a hedge: a second kind of qubit alongside the superconducting chips IBM has built its whole roadmap on.
DARPA backs PsiQuantum with $125m to prove a useful quantum computer is buildable by 2033
DARPA has signed a $125m agreement with PsiQuantum, its largest US government award, to verify a path to a utility-scale quantum computer by 2033. What the money buys, and why that date belongs on a crypto and AI radar.
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