August 4, 2026
- Open-model releases keep coming in waves. DeepSeek V4 Flash reached GA with a big agentic-capability jump (Terminal Bench 2.1, DeepSWE) and community quantizations already running on a single RTX 4090 or a 128GB Mac; Alibaba shipped Qwen 3.8 (a 27B local variant and a Max frontier variant) (@simonw); and MiniMax H3 became the first open model to top an AI video ranking, with 33B weights on Hugging Face (The Decoder). · AI & Model Security
in Attackers Seize N-central RMM Servers After N-able's Second Fix Falls Short