Tencent open-sources 770B model as MIRI warns of extinction odds - AIskimIQ Daily Brief - 2026-08-29

AIskimIQ — Daily AI News Brief · Aug 29, 2026 · 5m

Tencent released a 770-billion-parameter open-source model even as US labs keep their weights closed, while MIRI's CEO said the chance of AI-driven human extinction is in the high double digits. Elsewhere, OpenAI drew criticism for shutting down its Assistants API without a migration path, and Microsoft pushed deeper AI integration into Teams and consumption-based pricing. — Podcast voice is synthetic and episodes are produced with AI workflows.