The Linux Foundation Announces $12.5 Million in Grant Funding (via @AlphaOmegaOSS and @OpenSSF) @AnthropicAI , @AmazonWebServices, @GitHub, @Google, @GoogleDeepMind, @Microsoft, @OpenAI to Invest in Sustainable Security Solutions for #OpenSource#

From record-breaking open-source releases to escalating policy scrutiny, the last two weeks prove agentic AI is rapidly maturing into a production reality. Here's your biweekly recap of everything that happened in the space, in the latest edition of AI Agents Pulse: 1️⃣ Anthropic is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering as early as October, with bankers beginning to schedule meetings between executives and prospective investors. 2️⃣ Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model claimed to be the world's largest open-source AI model, rivaling top proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. 3️⃣ Employees from major AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed a statement urging the U.S. government to support international efforts to pace the development of automated AI research. 4️⃣ Nvidia is reportedly discussing a $250 billion backstop to help finance a 10-gigawatt data center campus for OpenAI in Ohio, raising concerns about circular financing in the AI industry. 5️⃣ Apple overtook Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company as investors shifted focus toward infrastructure and memory chips amid concerns over high AI buildout costs. 6️⃣ OpenAI reportedly flagged GPT-5 as high-risk for assisting in the creation of biological hazards, though the company later downgraded this risk rating. 7️⃣ U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated the administration may sanction Chinese AI models if they are found to be 'distilled' from proprietary American technology. 8️⃣ Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI employees, released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight model capable of advanced reasoning and processing multimodal inputs. 9️⃣ Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied reasoning model that lets robots understand the physical world, plan multi-step tasks, and hand off motor execution to lower-level vision-language-action models. 🔟 Industry leaders formed the Open Secure AI Alliance, which will work to remediate and disclose vulnerabilities using open technologies, building on the Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative and OpenSSF community work.