July 17, 2026
- Moonshot's Kimi K3 (2.8T params, 1M context) is topping arenas and closing on GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5, with full open weights due by July 27 — reviving open-weights governance questions (jailbreak resistance, pre-clearance) that Ethan Mollick notes remain entirely unsettled for open models (The Decoder, Simon Willison). Separately, Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B open-weights model leading US open models but still trailing top Chinese labs (The Decoder). · AI & Model Security
in Live SonicWall Exploitation, a New C2 Release, and AI Agents Tricked Into Running Attacker Commands