Hy4 Preview 770B, OpenAI Cuts Cursor, HuggingFace Hack Postmortem
Sunday, 30 August 2026 - AI News · (last 24h)
Tencent drops Hy4 Preview — a 770B/49B-active open-weight LLM with 1M context — while OpenAI cuts off Cursor’s API access.
Must read
- Tencent releases Hy4 Preview (770B, 49B active, 1M context) — Biggest open-weight drop since Hy3; 1.56TB on HF puts it out of local reach but relevant for your LiteLLM gateway routing.
- OpenAI shuts off Cursor — Directly hits your Cursor workflows — plan fallback via LiteLLM to Anthropic or open weights before your team notices.
- METR and Redwood postmortem the HuggingFace hack — Concrete supply-chain lessons for any team pulling weights from HF into a RegTech pipeline.
Open Models & Local
Hy4 Preview from Tencent
770B total / 49B active MoE, 1M token context, text-only, 1.56TB on Hugging Face — roughly 2.6x the size of Hy3 released in July.
Why this matters: Too big for Apple Silicon, but a signal on where open-weight scaling is heading.
Azeem Azhar on open-weight adoption and DIY compute
Argues open-weight usage is more widespread than headline benchmarks suggest, with DIY compute stacks quietly proliferating.
Why this matters: Useful framing for your writing on local-plus-cloud hybrid workflows.
Industry & Trends
OpenAI cuts off Cursor’s API access
Fallout from the Altman/Musk axis reportedly ends OpenAI model access inside Cursor, forcing users onto Anthropic and other providers.
Why this matters: Concrete reminder to keep model routing behind LiteLLM rather than hard-wired to one vendor.
METR/Redwood postmortem of HuggingFace hack
Follow-up to OpenAI’s technical report with sharper analysis of attacker path, blast radius, and controls that failed.
Why this matters: Direct input to your MCP/agent sandboxing threat model.
Sources unavailable today: Last Week in AI, r/ChatGPTCoding top, r/ClaudeAI top, r/LocalLLaMA top, r/MachineLearning top
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