Alibaba banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code after security researchers discovered hidden steganographic code that tracked Chinese users by timezone and proxy settings. The ban follows …
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that ignited a price war by undercutting rivals, will double API prices for its V4 models during peak hours in Beijing, marking its first time-based surcharge. The mov…
Anthropic has removed a hidden monitoring feature from its Claude Code tool that secretly checked users' connections to China and AI labs there, transmitting data through encrypted steganography in th…
MiniMax released M3, a 428-billion-parameter open-weight model, on June 7, achieving 59.0% on SWE-Bench Pro—slightly outperforming GPT-5.5's 58.6%—at $0.30 per million input tokens, making it 16 times…
A researcher discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code silently embeds invisible Unicode steganographic markers into system prompts when users route requests through custom API proxies, fingerprinting r…
A developer claims Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool secretly encodes China-related proxy signals into system prompts sent to its AI model, potentially creating a covert classification channel. The all…
A developer tracked OpenRouter's daily usage rankings for a month to see which AI models developers actually use in production. The top five models by token volume were all from Chinese labs or open-w…
An open-source coding agent called Relay has been released, supporting non-mainstream and Chinese LLM providers like DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM. The Electron app offers chat and code workspaces with file…
A developer who switched from running Ollama locally to using MiniMax through OpenClaw reports that the model significantly improved their daily workflow. After three months of use, they found MiniMax…
AI coding platforms are shifting from unlimited plans to token-, credit-, and quota-based subscriptions. Five plans—MiniMax Token Plan, MiMo Token Plan, GLM Coding Plan, and others—offer developers fl…
OpenAI is considering drastic cuts to its token pricing ahead of its IPO, responding to competitive pressure from Anthropic and cheaper Chinese open-source models. The move aims to capture developer a…
A 2026 guide compares AI coding subscriptions, highlighting a shift to credit-based pricing. Platforms like OpenCode, Kilo, and GitHub Copilot offer varying plans, with OpenCode Go at $10/month and Ki…
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 …
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google accused Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Alibaba of using distillation to clone their chatbots via millions of fake interactions. The White House confi…
Llama.cpp developer released ggrun, an auto-tuning tool that measures GPU, RAM, and PCIe topology to compute optimal multi-GPU and MoE expert placement for GGUF models, serving an OpenAI-compatible AP…
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) raised HK$280 billion in IPO proceeds in 2025, overtaking the New York Stock Exchange to rank first globally, driven by a surge in tech listings under its revam…
Ollama's expansion to support Chinese AI models like Kimi-K2.5, GLM-5, MiniMax, and DeepSeek offers local deployment benefits but comes with hidden costs. Developers face documentation gaps, quantizat…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest AI distillation attack in history, with 28.8 million fraudulent exchanges targeting its Claude AI model. The attack, linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab…
Chinese AI models now process over three times the weekly token volume of US models on OpenRouter, handling 18 trillion tokens compared to 5.5 trillion. The shift began in February 2026 when Chinese m…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI model distillation attack, involving 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fraudulent accounts, and urged Congress to strengthen export …