Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed…
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Nvidia's grip on AI chips weakens as Microsoft turns to AMD and Anthropic may follow
Microsoft is expanding Azure's AI infrastructure with AMD's new Helios platform, which is set to challenge Nvidia's GPU systems in the second half of 2026. A…
Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI
Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app.
YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos
YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.
Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures.…
Hugging Face says an AI agent hacked its infrastructure, and it used AI to fight back
Hugging Face reports an attack on parts of its production infrastructure that was allegedly carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent system. The attack spanned…
US public health agencies to test OpenAI and Anthropic AI models
Public health departments across the United States will test generative AI tools under a new programme involving the Coalition for Health AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Accenture.…
Kimi K3 open-weight model: China’s biggest AI is a bet on memory, not compute
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-weight model has been read almost entirely through its parameter count since it launchedon July 16. At 2.8 trillion parameters, it is…
Moonshot pauses new Kimi K3 subscriptions after GPU demand maxes out in 48 hours
Moonshot has temporarily stopped selling new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model as demand nearly maxed out its GPU capacity within 48 hours. The company plans…
Quoting Sam Altman
We have been having extensive discussions around open source strategy. We will discuss it more at our next board meeting, but one thing we’d like to…
Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model
A community developer fine-tuned OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 traces into a 1B model that runs fully local — a 657MB smallest build, 128K context,…
Best Local LLMs You Can Run on a Single 24GB GPU in 2026: Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek Compared
A single 24GB GPU is the practical floor for serious local inference. This guide compares six open-weight models that fit one card at Q4_K_M. It covers…
Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query
Feyn Labs has released SQRL, a family of text-to-SQL models that inspect a database with read-only probes before committing to a query. The flagship SQRL-35B-A3B reports…
Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls "second only to Fable 5." The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder,…
What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
"Everybody knows the Greeks are inside."
Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.
Alibaba's Qwen takes on Kimi K3 with open-weight Qwen 3.8, says model is "second only to Fable 5"
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen 3.8, a multimodal AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters that the Qwen team says rivals leading models and trails only Fable 5.…
Google Deepmind argues video generators already contain the world models computer vision has been missing
Google Deepmind's GenCeption repurposes a video generator for classic vision tasks such as depth estimation and segmentation, matching state-of-the-art systems with far less training data. The…
Moonshot's Kimi K3 outperforms Fable 5 in frontend code but lags far behind in complex math
Moonshot's Kimi K3 is the first Chinese model to top the Code Arena: Frontend rankings, beating Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol by a wide margin.…
AI text detectors struggle when language models mimic an author's style
Epoch AI tested three leading AI text detectors (Pangram, GPTZero, and Originality.ai) using style-imitated texts. Up to 18 percent of AI-generated passages went undetected. For scientific…
AI chatbots reading X-rays can be dangerously confident even when they're wrong
The RadLE 2.0 benchmark tests whether AI models in radiology can tell when they should leave a diagnosis to a human. Many models deliver wrong findings…
Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep
Perplexity's WANDR is an open benchmark and evaluation harness with 500 evidence-heavy tasks. It tests whether research agents can discover many qualifying entities and back each…