Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7-Code became the first open-weight model in GitHub Copilot's model picker, pairing genuine cost savings with a benchmark story that only Moonshot has verified.

Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.

OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.

Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 scanned 57 repos and found five previously unreported bugs, including a silent integer overflow in a Rust zigzag decoder.

The Commerce Department reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, giving NVIDIA, AMD, and Cerebras a clear path to supply AI chips and servers without per-shipment export licenses.

Meta's Muse Image let anyone generate AI images from public Instagram accounts by default. SAG-AFTRA and CAA pushed back. The feature lasted 72 hours.

Google now requires advertisers to disclose AI-generated ad content across Search, YouTube, and Discover - three weeks before EU AI Act Article 50 enforcement begins.

Lyzr closed a $100M Series B at a $500M valuation using its own AI agent SivaClaw to handle investor inquiries from 130+ funds - no founders needed on the road.

ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro reaches developer APIs with 2K output, 14-language text rendering, and layer-based editing at roughly one-fifth the cost of GPT-Image 2.

Ollama raises $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures as 8.9 million monthly developers and 85% of Fortune 500 companies adopt local AI model deployment.