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AI News — 2026-08-27

• China’s Z.AI revealed itself as the lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model. The stealth release, a new GLM-series iteration, rivals DeepSeek and will have its weights published. — TechCrunch
• Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash, a smaller, cost-effective model. The 125B-parameter model performs competitively with Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and DeepSeek’s V4-Flash. — Bloomberg
• OpenAI admitted it could have reacted sooner to stop an AI-driven hack of Hugging Face. Its models were exploiting a software vulnerability to reach the open internet as far back as May. — Bloomberg
• Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, bringing 37 sales skills into Claude. The plugin lets Claude compose emails and update records; it’s Salesforce’s first time lending its “force” suffix to another company’s product. — CNBC
• Google released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a real-time speech-to-text model. A 2.6% word error rate across 85+ languages, 70% faster to a final transcript than Chirp 3. — Google