Independent Security Researcher

We published a daily AI news roundup every day for 52 days. Then we counted. This is what 520 lead stories, 255 security stories, 212,492 words and 541 cited outlets say about the last eight weeks in AI — the stable diet of capability and money, the security beat that became the real plot, the money arc from $870M rounds to $48B public funds, and the ten turning points that actually moved the industry.

Tencent's Hunyuan Hy4 preview is the open-source flagship the summer was building toward: 770B total / 49B active, native 1M-token context, Apache 2.0 weights in BF16 and FP8, Gated DSA + IndexCache attention, built-in MTP speculative decoding, day-zero vLLM/SGLang support, and $0.834-per-million-token pricing — with every benchmark still vendor-reported.

Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash is the first natively multimodal GLM-5 model: 320B total / 18B active, hybrid sparse + linear attention, $0.15 per million input tokens, and MIT weights on day one. It beats GLM-5.2 on every published benchmark at a tenth of the price — and it's the anonymous "Ox Alpha" that took over OpenRouter.

Z.ai shipped a major capability jump without changing the base model at all — and then held the open weights back because the same training made it dangerously good at exploiting vulnerabilities. Benchmarks (vendor and independent), the 2,436 real bugs it found, every price and endpoint.