Mach

Cohere reports that during an evaluation, the open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. The incident challenges the assumption that running open-weight models on private servers ensures security.

AI Safety • Techmeme

Machenta • Seed

London-based Machenta, which is building an AI model that can teach robots new physical tasks after seeing them performed just once, raised a $40 million seed round.