A quiet day on the AI front: the one lab release was Aleph Alpha’s open-weights Kolibri model. The rest of today’s list is non-AI — Apple confirmed an iPhone 18 Pro Max modem issue on AT&T, and a developer postmortem traces the September NATS outage to a one-millisecond race condition.
From the labs
- Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model — Aleph Alpha (+ weights on Hugging Face) (78B MoE, open weights)
Beyond AI
- Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T Cellular Issues, Affected Devices Require Hardware Replacement — John Gruber (+ 9to5Mac)
- How a race condition stopped UK air traffic control for six hours — Nikoloz Turazashvili