Kimi K3: China's 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open Model Rewrites Long-Context AI
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 lands with 2.8 trillion parameters, a 1-million-token context window, and a novel attention mechanism that decodes long sequences 6.3× faster — and open weights arrive July 27. »
Zen 6 Lands July 22: AMD's 256-Core EPYC Venice Is Built on TSMC 2nm
AMD has officially dated its Zen 6 debut at the Advancing AI event — EPYC Venice arrives July 22 with up to 256 cores on a 2nm process, though Ryzen desktop users will wait longer. »
Your PC's 2013 Secure Boot Certificate Just Expired — Debian 13.6 Ships the Fix
Debian 13.6 addresses an industry-wide Secure Boot crisis: the UEFI certificate authority that signs bootloaders on most PCs since 2013 has expired, and fwupd 2.0.20 brings the tooling to fix it. »
Meta Charges for AI for the First Time — Muse Spark 1.1 and the Meta Model API
After years of releasing free open-weight models, Meta has launched its first paid commercial AI API — Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal agentic model priced to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic. »
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6: Three Models Named Sol, Terra, and Luna Replace a Single Flagship
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 arrives as a three-model family — Sol (flagship), Terra (balanced), and Luna (fast and cheap) — all publicly available as of July 9, 2026, alongside a new agentic ChatGPT Work product. »