The New Open-Weights Leader, AI Lobbying, On-Device Reasoning, and Sleep-Based Disease Prediction
Published on 20.02.2026
GLM-5 Scales Up
TLDR: Z.ai released GLM-5, a 744 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that now leads the open-weights leaderboard on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index. It nearly matches proprietary models like Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 while remaining open under an MIT license.
Big AI Spends Big on Lobbying
TLDR: Top tech and AI companies spent more than $100 million on political lobbying in 2025, with Meta leading at $26.29 million. The spending appears to be paying off through favorable policy outcomes including relaxed chip export bans, limits on state AI regulation, and support for massive infrastructure projects.
Bloomberg report on tech lobbying
Faster Reasoning at the Edge
TLDR: Liquid AI released LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, a reasoning model that runs in under 900 megabytes of RAM and generates tokens roughly twice as fast as similarly sized competitors. It matches or beats Qwen3-1.7B on most reasoning benchmarks while requiring significantly less memory.
Liquid AI LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
Sleep Signals Predict Illness
TLDR: SleepFM, developed by researchers at Stanford, Harvard, and several European institutions, can classify over 130 medical conditions from a single night of sleep data, detecting conditions like congestive heart failure and stroke up to six years before symptoms appear.