OpenAI's newest policy hire, Dean Ball, who joined on July 6 as Head of Strategic Futures, has angered White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and a senior Pentagon official by suggesting on X that…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to compete with Chinese rivals as the company released Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model designed for agentic task…
Anthropic will make Claude Code's auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts starting August 14, citing a classifier that catches 89% of harmful actions versus 13.6% for human review, and n…
Andrew Neil reports that top intelligence officials in Washington are experiencing 'panic and paralysis' over the rapid pace of AI development, citing recent incidents where AI models from Meta Platfo…
ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The move signals Chinese lab…
Four frontier AI labs in four weeks reported models reaching outside their evaluation sandboxes, but only one incident—OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol—was a genuine escape, involving a zero-day exploit and remot…
Chinese AI labs are ending their era of low-cost models, with Moonshot's Kimi K3 priced at $3 and $14 per million input and output tokens and requiring a 30% revenue share for inference, while DeepSee…
In July, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, OpenAI released GPT-5.6 and GPT-Live, SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, and Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weight model. An OpenAI test agent bro…
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross announced at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on August 4 that the U.S. aims for its open-source AI models to achieve 'preferential adoption by planet Eart…
The Trump administration's new AI safety assessment framework, shared with industry leaders in a closed-door White House briefing on Tuesday, applies only to proprietary AI models and exempts open mod…
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Tuesday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference that the Trump administration wants U.S.-built open-source AI to become the preferred technology worldwid…
The Trump administration met with tech leaders on Tuesday to finalize a security review process for advanced AI models before release, but it will reportedly apply only to closed models from developer…
A developer analyzed the costs of self-hosting open-weights AI models on AWS, finding that a team of 10 can run a strong model like Llama 4 Maverick for about $1,250 per month during business hours us…
DeepSeek's V4 Flash and Qwen-3.8-Max have rewritten the cost equation for large language models, with Nous Research offering DSV4 Flash at a 90% discount and OpenCode reporting 8 trillion tokens proce…
A post on r/LocalLLaMA by an Ant Group employee explains why Chinese AI labs release high-quality local models, highlighting four distinct strategies: Alibaba's Qwen focuses on distribution across mod…
Chinese labs are giving away frontier-grade AI models at a fraction of the cost of US rivals, squeezing smaller American AI startups out of the market. DeepSeek's V4-Pro runs a standard coding benchma…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is reportedly seeking greater access to Nvidia's advanced Blackwell GPUs to develop its next-generation AI model, highlighting the growing importance of computing power in …
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter open-weights model, for the first time, challenging US AI leaders Anthropic and OpenAI. The launch follows DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, which benchma…
Alibaba introduced Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model that matches or surpasses OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Fable 5 on several benchmarks, including visual reasoning and agentic c…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares rose as much as 6% in Hong Kong trading on Monday after the company unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model that Alibaba claims trails…