Naveed Ahmad

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a Chinese open-weight model has narrowed the gap with the industry’s leaders.   GLM-5.2, the open-weight AI model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and bio capabilities,…

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Alcaraz withdraws from Cincinnati occasion as doubts develop over US Open defence

Alcaraz withdraws from Cincinnati occasion as doubts develop over US Open defence

Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz final appeared in April’s Barcelona Open. Picture: REUTERS LONDON: Carlos Alcaraz ‌has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open resulting from ⁠a wrist ⁠damage, organisers have stated, casting doubt over the Spaniard’s health within the run-up to his US Open title ⁠defence this month. “We all know Carlos is doing all the things…

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NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super: A 34B Open Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Driving Under OpenMDW-1.1

NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter vision-language-action (VLA) model for autonomous driving, under an open commercial license. The stated design target is the long-tail events: rare, multi-agent situations that conventional detection-and-prediction stacks handle poorly. The model pairs a 32B VLM backbone, built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post-trained with reinforcement learning,…

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Edmonton couple stuck in Caribbean amid WestJet strike aftermath

WestJet flights are taking off again after the airline and its flight attendants reached a tentative deal. Following the short-lived strike, an Edmonton couple encountered turbulence they weren’t expecting. Elaine Schulz-Charlery and her husband Timothy Charlery left Alberta in early July for a four-week family reunion on the southeastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The couple…

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