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Open weights are closing on frontier models, but the label is doing too much work

Mozilla's State of Open Source AI report, published on Sept. 15 with data current to Sept. 1, puts the best open-weight models roughly 4.4 months behind closed frontier offerings. A separate OSI post argues that gap is the wrong thing to measure.

What a Tech Antitrust Ruling Actually Decides, and Why the Remedy Phase Matters More

Microsoft, Google and Nvidia are all inside live antitrust cases right now, and the outcomes will be decided less by the guilty verdicts than by the remedies that follow. Here is what the record shows so far.

The Semiconductor Capacity Race Has a Quartz Bottleneck Nobody Fixed

Spruce Pine, North Carolina produces the world's only ultra-pure quartz at commercial scale. Two years after Hurricane Helene flooded the town, the supply chain feeding every silicon ingot still runs through one road.

Data centre backlash reaches sport's data layer as Genius Sports bets on direct fan monetisation

Starship flies for orbit, UK stands up a space squadron, and solar packs into 22 acres

Energy prices squeeze European industry as datacenters push up US power costs

Humanoid robot factories: what is actually running, and what is still a demo

INMO Air3 Recall Shows the Gap Between Wearable Health Data and Wearable Safety

TakeMe2Space to launch AI computing satellite on SpaceX rocket on 1 October

Meta opens Muse bug bounty worth up to $300,000 as robot tests expose AI safety gaps

Fusion's year of firsts: Helion, Realta and CFS report concrete milestones

Open source infrastructure vulnerability: OpenAI's agent review and the antidetect boom

What Is Really Inside an AI Accelerator: T-Glass, HBM and the Decode Bottleneck

Europe's AI panic backlash meets Washington's regulatory push

AI accelerators hit a T-glass bottleneck as Nittobo races to add capacity

Pew finds Democrats now more worried than Republicans about AI and jobs

Europe's AI rules face a fight over what the danger actually is

China Puts 2030 Target on Solid-State Batteries, Tightens Grip on Tech Talent

How Online Disinformation Networks Work: Four Cases, One Playbook

Open source tooling meets AI security incidents as labs probe tens of thousands of cases