Perplexity and Nvidia launch 'Portable Computer,' a local AI agent running powerful open models directly on desktop hardware via Nvidia's DGX Spark, promising lower costs, faster speeds, and greater privacy as a bold challenger to cloud-based AI from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Hugging Face is in acquisition talks at a $13 billion valuation, with banks evaluating bids for the AI infrastructure giant, though questions remain about whether CEO Clem Delangue is truly open to selling given his commitment to long-term community responsibility.
A mysterious free AI model called Ox Alpha, built by an anonymous developer, shatters OpenRouter's all-time launch record by generating 11.6 trillion tokens in just three days, more than doubling the previous record, while amassing 327,000 unique users — yet its creator, architecture, and data policies remain completely unknown.
Rome launches as an open-source agentic AI operating system that empowers agents to autonomously build, evolve, and share their own apps through a self-evolution loop, deployable via Docker or Rome Cloud, with persistent 'Rome Apps' available on a dedicated App Store.
A new GitHub repository, Awesome-Graph-Engineering, launches alongside a sweeping survey revealing how Graph Engineering is becoming a critical backbone for LLM-powered multi-agent systems, curating hundreds of research papers and tools spanning pre-training, memory management, and agent coordination.
Pi, an open-source AI agent toolkit, surges to 97K GitHub stars by offering unified multi-provider LLM support across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, complete with an agent runtime, interactive CLI, and robust supply-chain security through pinned dependencies and strict lifecycle script controls.
Liquid AI and Artificial Analysis launch Pipette, an open-source benchmarking platform testing 30+ AI models across 1,000+ edge device configurations, delivering real-world performance data on devices like the iPhone 17 Pro and MacBook Pro M5 Max through native apps and an interactive public dashboard.
Chinese state-affiliated hackers have more than doubled their cyberattack volume by integrating DeepSeek and other open-source AI models into their operations, using the technology to automate routine tasks and develop advanced malicious software, according to Taiwanese research firm TeamT5.
Hugging Face is exploring a sale at a staggering $13 billion valuation — nearly triple its 2023 worth — as the AI developer platform, home to over 3 million public models, works with a bank to gauge buyer interest amid surging demand for AI middleware acquisitions.
A powerful open-source AI quantitative trading platform launches on GitHub, bringing LLM-driven strategy generation, real-time stock monitoring, and backtesting tools to A-share market retail investors and quant enthusiasts via a modern FastAPI and React 18 stack.