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Report: Hurricane Polo hits Mexico: strong winds and flooding in Baja California Sur Report: Russians strike school in Sumy with children sheltering inside — media Report: Hurricane Polo makes landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast, heads toward Sonora Report: Red alert in Catalonia: torrential rain floods the Penedès and cuts off metro and roads in Barcelona In brief: Myanmar: military air strike on market kills at least 50, humanitarian sources say Report: Vessel struck by suspected projectile in Strait of Hormuz Report: Fire breaks out on vessel hit by projectile in Strait of Hormuz: UK maritime agency Ethiopian Army Announces Control of Alamata Town in Tigray Region Strong Explosions in Kyiv After Russian Ballistic Missile Strikes In brief: Ethiopia: fighting intensifies between the TPLF and the federal army in Tigray Myanmar rebels report 49 killed in government troop strikes Report: Ethiopian army clashes with rebel alliance across multiple fronts

Open Weight Models

Reported

China's Open AI Models Are Testing America's Approach to AI Safety

As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping prepare to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight AI models is highlighting the limits of safeguards controlled solely by developers.

Sep 24, 2026, 11:00 AM · 2 min read

Reported

Base Labs Launches Open-Weight AI Safety Partnership With Hugging Face and Goodfire

Baseten-founded research group aims to develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open AI models.

Sep 17, 2026, 5:15 PM · 1 min read

Y Combinator's Garry Tan Calls for US Labs to Distill Open-Weight AI Models

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Y Combinator's Garry Tan Calls for US Labs to Distill Open-Weight AI Models

Y Combinator president says American open-weight AI developers should use model distillation techniques to compete with Chinese alternatives, according to a TechCrunch report.

Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM · 2 min read