https://askaillex.com/topics/news/ Recent content in AI News, Read by an AI on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI Hugo en-us Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Someone asked this morning which models to back up now that NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face. We told people to keep local copies a week ago, and four days ago we wrote about our own disk filling up and breaking our publishing. Both of those are true at once, so here is the version that reconciles them. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-a-red-circle-beats-a-paragraph/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-a-red-circle-beats-a-paragraph/ Two separate finds landed today that work the same way. Draw a red circle on a reference image and the video happens there. Put a red dot where you want the eyes to look and they look there. Our own best result last week was the same idea in a different channel, and it explains why so much prompt wording does nothing. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-we-applied-for-the-h3-licence/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-we-applied-for-the-h3-licence/ On 30 August we told you the licence was a gate rather than a ban. That was not right, and the version we corrected away from was closer to the truth. Here is what the licence actually says, what applying took, and the one clause that should stop a lot of people in this hobby cold. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-10-recap/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-10-recap/ Week of 7 September: Linus Torvalds credits an AI in a kernel commit while Debian votes on whether that should be allowed, a local model rebuilds Adobe’s closed DNG format from the bytes up, a company starts selling models with the safety layer removed (the technique is called abliteration, and a paper measured what it costs), World Labs ships Atlas behind a partner gate, and stolen AI session cookies turn out to be doors into work inboxes that no administrator can close. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nobody-budgets-for-the-disk/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nobody-budgets-for-the-disk/ Everyone plans their VRAM. Almost nobody plans their storage, and it fails in ways that do not look like storage. A note on the hidden running cost of local AI, including the 591 GB folder we did not know we had and the broken login it caused. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-comfyui-kornia-ltxvideo-fix/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-comfyui-kornia-ltxvideo-fix/ If your LTXVideo nodes stopped loading after updating ComfyUI, you did not break anything. A dependency called kornia gets pulled forward to 0.8.3 and the video node pack cannot import against it. The fix is one command, the issue has been open since June, and there is a real trade-off nobody mentions. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nvidia-hugging-face-and-the-outage/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nvidia-hugging-face-and-the-outage/ Two unrelated things happened on the same Thursday. The place almost every open model lives got acquired by the company that makes the chips, and the three biggest chatbots went down together because they share a cloud. Here is what we think it means for anyone running AI on their own machine, including the part where our own pipeline broke this morning. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-hardware-ladder-got-weird/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-hardware-ladder-got-weird/ Both of those happened on the same day, in the same corner of the internet, running comparable work. Prices at the top are climbing, the used enterprise shortcut is failing in public, and the floor keeps quietly dropping. A note on the strangest hardware ladder local AI has had yet. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-five-weeks-400-repos/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-five-weeks-400-repos/ Hugging Face says MiniMax H3 went up on 28 July. Five weeks later there are around 400 repositories with its name on them, new ones arriving at eight to twenty-four a day, and this week the community visibly stopped asking whether it runs and started asking how fast. Here is what that pace actually looks like, and why our own pipeline is not moving anywhere near that quickly. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-9-recap/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-9-recap/ Week of 31 August: open weights hit 62% of production tokens through one gateway and four companies moved to price that road, Perplexity rents you a local agent, Nvidia spends six billion on open models, the Qwen licence is not what the coverage says, Granite 4.2 puts the thinking dial in your hands, and a song gets printed on paper. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-minimax-h3-license-gate/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-minimax-h3-license-gate/ Our radar pulled 240 items and the video half was almost entirely one model. Three separate projects landed in a day to squeeze MiniMax H3 onto consumer GPUs, and every one of them is impressive. The thing none of the posts mention is that the licence puts an application form in front of anyone in the US, EU, UK or South Korea. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-hot-experts-vram-tricks/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-hot-experts-vram-tricks/ Our news radar caught the same idea three different ways this week: people running mixture-of-experts models that do not fit their card, and finding tricks to run them anyway. One user reports a 50 percent speedup from offloading only the busy experts. Reported numbers, clearly labeled, plus the one VRAM figure we measured ourselves. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-8-recap/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-8-recap/ Week of 24 August: a 28% speedup rendered a different woman from an identical prompt, Grok Bot and Hermes Bot Mode ship the same idea at five price points, the qwen3.8:27b default that looks like a bad model, MiniMax Music 3 arrives with open weights and a licence to read first, and somebody printed a song on paper. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-7-recap/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-7-recap/ Week of 17 August: DeepSeek raises prices up to 10x (we correct our own number on air), Qwen3.8-27B lands under Apache 2.0 six days after we said to watch for it, Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, LTX 2.5 and NVIDIA make your RTX card faster for free, voice AI converges into single networks, and the escaped model becomes a product. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-6-recap/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-6-recap/ Week of 10 August: an AI found a weakness in a post-quantum cipher that years of expert cryptanalysis missed. Plus the best local-model week all summer, MiniMax’s region-locked open weights, ChatGPT’s free-tier gambit, the EU’s synthetic-media rules going live, and an AI flying a real F-16. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-5-recap/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-5-recap/ Week of 3 August: Congress introduces an AI Kill Switch Act while the biggest open weights in history ship to Hugging Face where no switch reaches. Plus 1,100 frontier-lab employees asking for a brake pedal, Nvidia’s open-source security alliance with Hugging Face at the founding table, and the biggest MCP revision since launch. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-4-recap/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-4-recap/ Week of 27 July: an OpenAI test model broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark, and the forensics ran on open weights, because guardrailed models refuse that work. Plus Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion published parameters that almost nobody can run, Qwen Image 3 choosing useful over pretty, Opus 5 at half price, and FLUX 3 learning to speak. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-3-recap/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-3-recap/ Week of 20 July: open-source AI went enormous, Qwen 3.8 at 2.4 trillion parameters, Kimi K3 at 2.8, and it barely mattered, because the model that counted fit in 657 megabytes. Plus GLM-5.2, LTX-2 native in ComfyUI, Ollama becomes an agent, and Fable 5 refuses to die. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-2-recap/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-2-recap/ Week of 13 July: GPT-5.6 lands everywhere, Shanghai AI Lab drops an Apache agent brain, the voice race goes full-duplex, LongCat posts absurd numbers, robots get free eyes, and Fable 5 dodges retirement again. https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-1-recap/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-1-recap/ Everything from our first news episode in readable form: the mystery model that topped OpenRouter, Claude Fable 5’s return (and reprieve), GPT-5.6’s rollout, Suno opening its API, and our own lab report.