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Updated July 28, 2026

Latest AI news for builders and leaders

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ModelsJul 27, 2026

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights: first open 3T-class model

Moonshot AI published full Kimi K3 model weights on Hugging Face under the Kimi K3 License—the world’s first open 3-trillion-parameter-class release. The 2.8T MoE model (104B activated) uses Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, native MoonViT-V2 vision, a 1M-token context window, and MXFP4 quantization-aware training, with supporting stack pieces including attention kernels, MoE communication, and agent-environment infrastructure.

Source: Hugging FaceRead source

SecurityJul 27, 2026

NVIDIA launches Open Secure AI Alliance for open defensive AI security tools

NVIDIA and 40+ partners—including Microsoft, SpaceXAI, Hugging Face, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, and the Linux Foundation—launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to build and share open models, harnesses, and tools for AI cybersecurity. Citing the Hugging Face incident where open-weight GLM 5.2 enabled forensics after closed models blocked analysis, NVIDIA contributed the open-source NOOA agent-harness research framework and urged policymakers to treat open defensive AI as an asset, not a liability.

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EnterpriseJul 27, 2026

Anthropic’s Amodei: we never called for banning open-weights AI models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published the company’s formal position that it has never advocated banning open-weights models, calling non-dangerous open weights a public good. Instead of protectionist bans, he backs chip export enforcement against authoritarian access, crackdowns on industrial-scale distillation, and mandatory safety testing for all sufficiently capable models—open and closed—while disagreeing with some open-letter claims that open weights necessarily favor defenders over attackers.

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Melvin Vivas

Engineer, mentor, and your friendly guide to AI

I help everyday people, professionals, and founders make sense of AI, and no question is too basic. Most of my mentees started exactly where you are now.

Behind that is 25 years of engineering across banking, fintech, and enterprise. These days it's hands-on work building AI apps and running my own daily life on a personal AI assistant.

Whether you're a student, a working professional, a leader, or a founder, you'll get someone who's done the work and explains it in plain language.

Senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank & Ohmyhome (Nasdaq)

Built AI Dream Photo, an AI photo app used by real customers

Building aibackends.com, free open-source AI tools for developers

Building skillsbento.com, an AI Agent Skills marketplace

Speaker at NTU Singapore, PSIA, and DICT Philippines

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Open Mentoring: Connecting Minds

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My personal AI

What I actually ask my AI

These are real conversations with my personal AI assistant lately:

“Read these screenshots from my kids' school app and remind me of the deadlines”“What happened at the F1 British Grand Prix?”“Any Wimbledon updates?”“Find me a decent monitor to replace my old one”“What Korean drama should I watch next?”“Give me some non-software business ideas”“What are popular cat breeds for pets?”“Summarize this video posted on X”“Make me a video”

Notice anything? None of it is about coding. My AI is a personal assistant that helps me run everyday life. You can have one too, and I'll help you set it up around your own routines.

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