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City-developed LLM outperforms Qwen3-7B; FBI busts AI phishing service

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Rio de Janeiro has developed its own municipal LLM, named Rio3.5, which has demonstrated superior performance to Qwen3-7B on certain benchmarks. This development highlights a city's capacity to act as a sovereign operator of its own AI, challenging the notion that public sector AI is inherently dependent on cloud providers. Separately, the FBI has dismantled an AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform that generated a million URLs, illustrating the commoditization of automated URL rotation for malicious purposes and the increasing speed of attack surfaces. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates potential for localized AI development and highlights evolving AI-driven cyber threats.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a municipal LLM release and a report on an AI-powered cybercrime service.

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City-developed LLM outperforms Qwen3-7B; FBI busts AI phishing service

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 Français(FR) · [email protected] ·

    Rio de Janeiro trained a municipal LLM (Rio3.5) that surpasses Qwen3-7B on some benchmarks. What deserves attention: it's less the raw performance than

    Rio de Janeiro a entraîné un LLM municipal (Rio3.5) qui surpasse Qwen3-7B sur certains benchmarks. Ce qui mérite attention : c'est moins la performance brute que le modèle de gouvernance — une ville comme opérateur souverain de son propre LLM. La dépendance aux fournisseurs cloud…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    An AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform, dismantled by the FBI — a million URLs generated to bypass filters at scale. The interesting angle isn't the disru

    An AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform, dismantled by the FBI — a million URLs generated to bypass filters at scale. The interesting angle isn't the disruption itself, but the infrastructure: automated URL rotation is now a commodity service, not a custom tool. The attack s…

    LINKS bleepingcomputer.com/…/fbi-disrupts-massi…

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