not much happened today

**Alibaba** announced the release of **Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct**, an open agentic code model with **480B** parameters and **256K** context length, praised for rapid development and strong coding performance. Benchmark claims of **41.8% on ARC-AGI-1** faced skepticism from **Franois Chollet** and others due to reproducibility issues. The model quickly integrated into ecosystems like **vLLM**, **Dynamic GGUFs**, and **OpenRouterAI**. The **White House** unveiled a new **AI Action Plan** emphasizing **Innovation**, **Infrastructure**, and **International Diplomacy**, linking AI leadership to national security and prioritizing compute access for the **Department of Defense**. The plan sparked debate on open vs. closed-source AI, with calls from **Clement Delangue** to embrace open science to maintain US AI competitiveness.