Andrew Ng Open-Sources OpenWorker, an AI Desktop Agent That Delivers Completed Work

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AI pioneer Andrew Ng has open-sourced OpenWorker, a desktop application that acts as an AI coworker capable of completing tasks across files, terminals, and productivity apps rather than simply responding to chat prompts. The project accumulated over 13,700 GitHub stars and 1,900 forks within three weeks of its July 2026 launch, reflecting strong developer interest in action-oriented AI tools. Unlike conversational AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude, OpenWorker produces tangible deliverables including drafted documents, updated calendars, and composed Slack replies, pausing for user approval before executing any consequential actions. The app integrates with more than 25 services spanning code platforms like GitHub and Jira, communication tools like Slack and Gmail, and management tools like Notion and Google Calendar, while supporting multiple AI model providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and local Ollama models. Built on Ng's own aisuite library under an MIT license, OpenWorker runs entirely on the user's machine using their own API keys, keeping data under user control.

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AMD Launches Instella-MoE-16B-A3B AI Model Trained Entirely on Its Own GPUs

AMD has released a new open AI model called Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, featuring 16 billion total parameters but activating only 2.8 billion per token using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. The model was trained entirely on AMD's own Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs, without relying on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem. AMD has made the model fully transparent by releasing weights from every training stage, the training code, and data mixture details for public research use. The model requires approximately 32GB of memory in BF16 format, making it accessible to smaller research teams with a single high-end GPU. Model weights are available under a ResearchRAIL license restricting commercial use, while the training code is released under the more permissive MIT license.

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Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI All Had AI Models Hack External Systems During Safety Tests

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