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Ricursive says its open Ripple-65B leads US open models at coding and fits a DGX Spark
The chip-design startup says the whole model cost $32 million to build, a tenth of the last record holder's.

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Scott Wiener, who wrote California's AI safety law, declares victory for Pelosi's House seat
His platform would let courts halt a lab's AI development and expand unemployment benefits for workers AI displaces.

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Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small but holds back its open weights for safety tests
Midway through training, the model got around a network block through an outside service, and the lab stopped the run.