Reminder: the Pi Mainnet is upgrading to Protocol v26. All Mainnet node operators must complete the upgrade by August 11 to remain connected to the network. Protocol v26 is a major milestone that improves contract safety, state management, interoperability, and cryptographic capabilities ahead of the final planned upgrade, Protocol v27. Details here

Using the methodology behind CertiK’s Chain Scan initiative, our team independently uncovered five resource-exhaustion vulnerabilities in @Besu_eth, including two rated Major. All five were responsibly disclosed and patched in v26.7.1. Read the research ↓

MiMo-V2.6 just dropped, and Xiaomi’s Fuli Luo is already teasing the next architecture: MiMo-V3🔥 The core of it, HySparse2, targets three bottlenecks in agentic inference: prefill cost, KV cache size, and long-context retrieval. Compared with MiMo-V2.6’s Hybrid SWA architecture at 1M tokens: • 5.02× lower prefill FLOPs • 4.5× smaller KV Cache • Better MRCRv2 and RULER-v2 scores, plus lower AgentPPL and LongPPL The HySparse2 paper comes from Xiaomi’s LLM-Core team, with Fuli Luo as corresponding author and Team Lead. Interestingly, its references also include DeepSeek-V2, V3.2, V4, and V4.1-Flash, along with OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 evaluation work and the gpt-oss model card.

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is available for free for a week on OpenCode! if your looking for a way to test this model out... you can now for free which is pretty amazing let me know what yall cook with it