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Google Shifts AI Safety Unit out of DeepMind Lab to Global Affairs

Google is moving its “AI responsibility” unit out of Google DeepMind and into Google’s global affairs organization, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (Aug. 26), citing an internal email. The AI responsibility unit includes 90 people and has teams focused on the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risks of Google’s AI…

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a pretty big performance boost.

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