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Edition 035 — Open weights hit a trillion parameters and a security wall, one prompt hijacks a whole AWS account, and the AI boom starts borrowing billions
Mistral's 1.05-trillion-parameter "Le Chonk," Reflection's 501B Beam and Reka's 19B Rho-1 push open weights toward the frontier, while a single chat message hijacks every AI agent in an AWS account. Plus Google's half-price Nano Banana 2.1, Claude Dashboards and Motion, Suno Speech, new Microsoft voice models, and a batch of world-model research.