Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a massive 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model priced far below US rivals at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens, intensifying the global AI price war as Chinese labs continue closing the gap with American competitors.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is leveraging a cluster of 20,000 Nvidia chips through an Alibaba deal to power its Kimi AI models, including the newly launched open-source Kimi K3, which rivals OpenAI and Anthropic on key benchmarks, underscoring China's continued reliance on Western semiconductors to fuel its booming AI race.
Google pulls a newly launched AI Google Earth feature just one day after release after a researcher exposes how it can generate convincing deepfake satellite images of real-world locations, including fabricated scenes of refugees and a bomb crater near a Gaza hospital, raising serious misinformation concerns.
China's Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a free open-weight model ranking third globally on Artificial Analysis's AI index, surpassing DeepSeek and Meta's Llama, offering governments and businesses a powerful alternative to costly U.S. AI software — though trust concerns and chip dependency on American hardware may limit widespread adoption.
The Trump administration's FCC has banned future imports of foreign robot vacuums and autonomous ground robots, targeting any software-controlled, wirelessly connected ground robot over 4.4 pounds capable of perceiving its environment, citing national security concerns, while existing approved devices like Roombas remain unaffected.
Google launches Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced AI model enabling humanoid robots to convert vision and language into full-body motor control, as a wave of generalist robotic AI startups reshapes the industry and the FCC moves to ban foreign-made robots over 4.4 pounds, threatening to upend US robotics supply …
Moonshot AI closes a massive $3.5 billion funding round, blowing past its original target and hitting a $35 billion valuation, as the Chinese AI company now eyes a $50 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO later this year.
Over 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google are urgently calling on governments to slow AI development through a new campaign called 'Pacing the Frontier,' warning that rapidly advancing capabilities — including accidental model breaches and AI cracking advanced cryptography — risk spiraling out of control, even as fierce …
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 at half the cost of rivals, Nvidia and Palantir push back against AI model restrictions citing China competition risks, and Nvidia and Microsoft form a new open AI security alliance as Microsoft's cybersecurity AI model hits 96% on a key benchmark while slashing costs by …
Open weight AI models are emerging as a cornerstone of American AI leadership and national security, with experts urging policymakers to expand compute access and avoid premature restrictions while balancing the risks of publicly available, hard-to-retract model weights.