Chinese AI startup MiniMax is developing a 2.7 trillion parameter large language model and plans to open-source it later this year, marking a significant move in the AI industry.…
Chinese AI startup MiniMax is building a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model, which it plans to open-source, according to The Information. The model, internally called M3 Pro, would be China's…
NVIDIA's new Vera CPU targets agentic throughput, addressing orchestration overhead in multi-step AI workflows. A 5B-parameter latent diffusion model generates multiplayer Rocket League matches at 20 …
Hong Kong stocks rebounded on Wednesday as the Hang Seng Index rose 2.4%, led by technology shares, amid easing concerns over lock-up expiries. Knowledge Atlas Technology surged 18% after cornerstone …
Chinese AI models now account for over 30% of weekly token usage among US users on OpenRouter, driven by cost advantages of 60-90% over Western rivals. The surge, led by MiniMax M2.5, Moonshot AI's Ki…
A developer benchmarked 14 AI agent models and found that the true cost of a simple greeting like "Hi" is not the token price (as low as $0.005) but the waiting time, which can cost up to $5.10 per gr…
China will debut the world's first AI agent phone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai from July 17-20, according to Shanghai official Tang Wenkan. Huawei will also showcase its…
Anthropic removed hidden tracking markers from Claude Code after a security researcher discovered the AI coding assistant used undisclosed Unicode markers and encoded domain lists to identify users' l…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, was caught embedding spyware-like code in its Claude Code AI model to secretly monitor Chinese users. Security researcher "Thereallo" discovered the hidden cod…
Chinese authorities are considering restricting foreign access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, in talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move would reverse C…
The Chinese government is considering restricting overseas access to its most advanced AI models and limiting foreign funding of domestic AI startups, which could end the era of cheap open-weight AI m…
Huawei will debut its Atlas 950 SuperPoD computing cluster and the world's first AI agent phone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai from July 17-20. China's AI phone and comput…
Hong Kong's stock market faces potential sell-off pressure as lock-up periods end for AI firms Zhipu AI and MiniMax, releasing shares worth US$11.5 billion. Analysts warn of dual selling pressure from…
Amazon Bedrock now offers MiniMax M2 family models, including the new M2.5 optimized for agent-native execution, enabling customers to build agentic applications and long-context document analysis wit…
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…