Moonshot Gave Away a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Model. The Catch Is 1.4 Terabytes
Moonshot released the full Kimi K3 weights on 27 July, the biggest open model yet. It tops WebDev Arena and undercuts closed US labs, if you can host it.
Claude Opus 5 Lands at Half the Price of Anthropic’s Best Brain
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on 24 July at unchanged Opus pricing, close to Fable 5 intelligence for half the cost. Here is what actually changed.
The Honest Case for Not Depending on OpenAI, Anthropic and Google
Five clear-eyed reasons to reduce your dependence on the AI giants, price, privacy, deprecation, outages and lock-in, plus the honest counter-case the self-host crowd skips. Part 2 of the Own Your AI series.
The Mysterious ‘Hum’ That’s Tormented People for 50 Years May Be Coming From Inside Their Own Heads
A Norwegian study of 28 people who hear the mysterious global ‘Hum’ concludes it is most likely a form of low-frequency tinnitus, generated inside the auditory system rather than out in the world. Not 5G, not sonar, and regrettably not aliens.
Those AI Calorie Apps Are Lowballing Your Lunch by About a Third, a New Study Finds
An NIH study fed 102 known meals through popular photo-based calorie apps like MyFitnessPal and LoseIt. They undercounted calories by 250-345 per meal and fat by ~30g, worst on high-fat meals. The confident number on your screen is a guess in a lab coat.
A Bacterium From a Frog’s Gut Wiped Out Cancer in Mice With a Single Dose. Yes, Really
Japanese researchers found a bacterium in frog and newt guts, Ewingella americana, that completely eliminated colorectal tumours in mice with a single dose and a 100% response rate, outperforming standard therapies. A striking result, with the giant caveat that it is still mice.
A Comet Older Than the Sun Is Passing Through Our Solar System, and It’s Not From Around Here
3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever found, and new readings of its carbon chemistry suggest it is older than the Sun, forged in an ancient star system before Earth existed. No, it is probably not aliens. It is better than that.
Quantum Stocks Are Up 69% While Actual Quantum Computers Still Can’t Do Much. Sound Familiar?
The quantum index is up 69% this year versus 10.7% for the S&P 500, on the back of real milestones from IonQ and Rigetti and $2B in federal money. But the whole industry is forecast at just $3B by 2028. A grounded look at the gap between quantum’s share price and its science.
The AI Data-Centre Backlash Has Arrived, and It’s Coming From Trump’s Own Backyard
A bipartisan revolt against AI data centres has stalled about $130 billion of projects across 49 states in a single quarter, driven by rising power bills, water use and tax breaks for the world’s richest firms. It may be the most effective brake on AI there is.
The Chinese AI Labs Accused of Copying Everyone Are About to Get Stupendously Rich
Two weeks after Washington accused Moonshot of copying a US model, it’s chasing a $50 billion valuation and a Hong Kong IPO, with DeepSeek and a pack of chip designers lining up too. The ‘they stole it’ argument is losing to the chequebook.