Microsoft AI Releases Microsoft-Decision-1: A Qwen3.5-9B Decision-Scoring Model

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model for routing, classification, verification and agent control. Microsoft-Decision-1 is…

Nace AI Open-Sources Drex 1.5: A 9B Decision Model That Scores Options, Not Text

Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model for agents and backend workflows. The Drex…

CFTC staffing cuts test regulator as crypto markets expand

The CFTC is confronting an expanding crypto and prediction-market sector with fewer staff and sharply reduced…

Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates…

OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers

OpenAI has released the Decisions API in public beta. It turns text and images into typed…

Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling

Underdog, the on-device assistant from Conway Research, has released Saluki 27B under Apache 2.0. Underdog Saluki…

Michigan Self-Excluded Players Lack Protection on Offshore Sites

The Michigan Gaming Control Board has issued cease-and-desist letters to 33 offshore operators accused of offering…

NFL Flags Sports Integrity Risks in Prediction Market Dispute

The NFL has filed an amicus brief backing New Jersey’s petition for Supreme Court intervention, asking…

Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent, One Universal Agent for Enterprise Work

Google Cloud has introduced the Google Cloud Gemini agent, a single agent for enterprise work. The…

Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents

In this tutorial, we implement RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), a method that lets an LLM agent…

Sixth Circuit Opens Kalshi Contracts to State Gambling Laws

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against Kalshi on Sept. 25, saying…

JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents

JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is…