A developer accused Anthropic of embedding hidden detection logic in Claude Code version 2.1.91 that silently identifies users connecting through Chinese proxies using obfuscated Unicode tricks and da…
X Square Robot closed a Series C financing round on June 29, 2026, pushing its valuation above $2.8 billion. The startup has received backing from major Chinese tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance…
Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestically developed chips, claiming it as the first of its scale to achieve end-to-end training on Chinese silico…
A developer discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code client contains a covert channel that exfiltrates user environment data via steganographic character variations in the system prompt. The embedded J…
A developer has compiled a massive list of API endpoints and domains, many of which appear to be proxies or mirrors for AI services like Claude and GPT. The list includes domains from major Chinese te…
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives raised Apple's 12-month price target to $400, the most bullish on Wall Street, driven by AI services monetization that could add $75-$100 per share. The bull case assumes AI f…
Tencent is aggressively buying back its own shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after its market capitalization lost $309 billion, driven by investor concerns over AI spending. The company repurcha…
Quesma engineer Piotr Migdal tested Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 27B model for local development and concluded it is viable for coding and general-purpose tasks, shifting the threshold for when developers shoul…
Qwen 3.6 27B, a dense local language model from Alibaba's Qwen team, impresses developers with its general intelligence and practical coding abilities, running efficiently on consumer hardware via lla…
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, raised $7.4 billion in the largest first-time funding round by a Chinese startup, driven by US export restrictions and competition with Anthropic's Mythos model. China now …
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3 billion of memory chips, according to sources, in a deal that would bind one of China's largest cloud operators to its …
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source family of agentic coding models that use self-scaffolding reinforcement learning to outperform Claude Opus 4.7 on SWE-Bench Verified and Terminal-Benc…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of using fake accounts and API queries to distill its Claude AI model, undermining its competitive edge. IPO expert Jay Ritter said the incident could either boost Anthropic'…
Governments worldwide are struggling to regulate AI without stifling innovation, with Europe taking the most systematic approach, the US the most volatile, and China the most interventionist. The core…
A UBS report reveals Chinese AI models cost up to 50 times less than US counterparts, with prices as low as $2-$3 per million output tokens versus $15 for comparable US models. About 60% of companies …
Between April 22 and June 5, 2026, operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab ran 25,000 fraudulent accounts through 28.8 million exchanges with Claude, in the largest adversarial distillation operatio…
Meta holds 84% of the global smart glasses market in Q1 2026, shipping 7.4 million units in 2025—a 281% year-over-year increase—driven by AI-powered Ray-Ban glasses starting at $299, while competitors…
Alibaba queried Anthropic's Claude 29 million times in a black-box distillation attempt, revealing that while such methods can replicate some capabilities, they fail to fully copy the original model's…
Alibaba unveiled Wan Streamer, an AI agent capable of real-time video interaction that can see, hear, and respond to users, marking a significant advancement beyond voice-only AI systems.…
Liquid AI released LFM 2.5-230M, a 230-million-parameter model that outperforms larger models on data extraction benchmarks, achieving 22.51 on CaseReportBench versus 13.83 for Qwen3.5-0.8B and 2.28 f…