Research
NVIDIA Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI
5-in-1
Joint language + vision + video + audio + action in one unified architecture. Released June 1 at COMPUTEX Taipei with Cosmos Coalition (Runway, Black Forest Labs, Skild AI). Open on Hugging Face — Nano variants available for local inference.
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Hugging Face Malware Supply Chain: 244K Downloads
244K
Fake "Open-OSS/privacy-filter" impersonating OpenAI hit #1 trending, delivered infostealer malware. 100+ malicious models execute code via pickle deserialization. ClawHub agent skills also being injected — agent registries now a primary attack surface.
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Cognition Raises $1B+ at $26B Valuation — $492M ARR
10x
AI coding agent category validated. Devin autonomous engineer hit $492M run-rate revenue — 10x growth since January 2026. Series D co-led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst. SWE-1.6 model integrates with multiple foundation labs.
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Inference Infrastructure: Baseten $5B to $11B in 90 Days
2x
Baseten in advanced talks for $1B raise at $11B valuation, up from $5B ninety days prior. At least 9 inference startups funded in 2026. VCs betting that inference = adoption of AI as a whole. Platform-class repricing of AI plumbing.
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Claude Opus 4.8: Anthropic's "Honest" Upgrade
4.8
Released May 28. Stronger coding, agentic tasks, professional work. Key differentiator: better judgment, reduced hallucination. No Claude 5 planned for 2026.