DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research laboratory that has developed highly capable open-source language models including DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, notable for their efficiency and performance.
Correctover Research Group published the first formal conformance standard for AI agents, the Correctover Conformance Standard (CCS) v1.0, after auditing over 8,000 real API calls across multiple prov…
Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai to discuss restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, citing national security co…
Xiaomi anonymously launched a trillion-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha on OpenRouter on March 11, pricing it at $0.30 per million tokens. Within days it processed 500 billion tokens weekly and …
Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI chip budgets to domestic suppliers within a year, up from 30% currently, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey. The shift is driven by U.S. ex…
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch said companies are moving away from relying on a single AI lab partner, instead adopting a multi-model approach using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Chinese models like Deep…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai are gaining traction with U.S. firms, with token share on OpenRouter exceeding 30% weekly since Feb. 8 and peaking at 46%, driven by rising costs at U.S. labs …
A security service blocked access to a website featuring the RK3576 Local DeepSeek with Lightweight WebUI after detecting a potential attack. The block was triggered by user actions such as submitting…
A developer compared four Chinese AI APIs—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—by stress-testing them under production-like workloads. DeepSeek V4 Flash emerged as the top pick for price-to-performance, offe…
A developer discovered that AI recommendation systems favor brands with clear, well-structured online information rather than objectively better products. An experiment with bubble tea brands showed t…
China minted 67 new unicorn start-ups in the first half of 2026, the highest in nearly five years, driven by a boom in artificial intelligence and robotics. AI and robotics accounted for over 53% of t…
DeepSeek released the MIT-licensed DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B model, a 3.1 GB distilled version of DeepSeek R1 based on Qwen 1.5B, designed for small reasoning experiments and local workflows. The …
Researchers at Sysdig documented the first known case of 'agentic ransomware,' dubbed JadePuffer, where an AI agent executed a cyberattack from start to finish without human technical involvement. How…
Sysdig's Threat Research Team disclosed JADEPUFFER on July 1, 2026, as the first documented agentic ransomware operation driven end-to-end by an LLM agent. The attack exploited CVE-2025-3248 in LangFl…
Five open-weight AI models have emerged as distinct tools for specific tasks in 2026, with DeepSeek V4 Pro leading in agentic coding and Qwen 3.6 serving as a balanced default. The models, including D…
GLM 5.2, an open-weights model from Z.ai, has emerged as a genuine competitor to frontier models like Opus and GPT, but its slow inference speed and lack of vision and web search capabilities limit it…
Chinese AI users are jailbreaking models like DeepSeek by claiming the year is 5022 and moral codes no longer apply, revealing a sophisticated prompt-engineering culture born from China's tightly cont…
Canadian developer Steven Chong created pxpipe, a tool that converts dense text into PNG images to reduce token costs when using Anthropic's Claude Code, cutting bills by up to 70%. The technique expl…
SiliconFlow, China's largest independent token supply platform, filed for a Hong Kong listing under Chapter 18C on June 30, 2026, revealing that it processed 578.5 billion tokens per day as of April 2…
Chinese web novel platforms that initially embraced AI writing tools are now cracking down on AI-generated content as readers complain about quality and creativity. Authors like Gordon Sheng use tools…
GLM 5.2, an open-weights model from Z.ai, has emerged as a genuine competitor to frontier models like Opus and GPT, but its slow inference speed and lack of vision and web search capabilities limit it…