A short AI news roundup for Workollab readers. These are the updates worth tracking this week.
News
- IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Apache 2.0 Models From 0.9B to 375B (MarkTechPost)
Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released something wider last week. IFM is the frontier lab launched by MBZUAI in May 2025. K2 Horizon is a fleet of six models: - Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine (OpenAI News)
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism. - Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement (The Verge AI)
The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often rep - H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder (MarkTechPost)
We look at NeoMME, a family of 260M and 800M bidirectional encoders from H Company. Unlike ColPali-style retrievers, it processes multilingual text tokens and raw 32×32 image patches in a single Transformer, with no pretrained vision tower - Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement (TechCrunch AI)
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
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