A short AI news roundup for Workollab readers. These are the updates worth tracking this week.
News
- A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem (TechCrunch AI)
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler. - Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals (MIT Technology Review AI)
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face i - Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date (MarkTechPost)
Alibaba's Qwen team moved Qwen3.8-Max from preview to general availability, with published per-token pricing and open weights due next week. The 2.4T parameter MoE model accepts text, image and video input across a 1M-token context. No benc - Cogent AI Team Releases VR-1: A Frontier Cyber Reasoning Model That Composes and Verifies Enterprise Attack Paths (MarkTechPost)
Cogent AI team released Cogent VR-1, a reasoning model post-trained specifically for cybersecurity rather than picking up cyber capability as a side effect of general coding strength. It ships with two companions: IntrusionBench, a benchmar - Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate (TechCrunch AI)
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."
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