Andrew Ng, former head of Google Brain and former chief scientist at Baidu, said at the Agentic AI Summit in Berkeley on Saturday that open-weight models appear safer than closed-weight models, citing…
Chinese-developed open-weight AI models accounted for 41% of all downloads on Hugging Face between February 2025 and February 2026, surpassing US-developed models at 36.5%, according to Hugging Face C…
A person familiar with the matter denied a report that Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi chatbot, could file for a Hong Kong IPO as early as this month, according to National Business Daily. Th…
Reuters reported in late June that Zhipu AI's next GLM-5.5 model is expected to launch in August, with a JPMorgan forecast placing it above one trillion parameters, but as of August 3, Zhipu has not c…
Shanghai's cyberspace authority registered 11 new generative AI services on Sunday, bringing the city's cumulative total to 211, according to an announcement that did not name the services. The regist…
OpenAI has slashed developer pricing for its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, cutting API costs to US$0.20 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens, as announced by CEO Sam Altman on X…
A June 2026 IBM Institute for Business Value study of 1,000 senior executives found that 91% do not fully understand their AI vendor dependencies, 71% said switching providers would be difficult, and …
Lenovo Capital, the venture capital arm of Lenovo Group, is doubling down on artificial intelligence with a 'sniper' investment strategy targeting robotics, coding agents, and computing infrastructure…
Alibaba Group Holding's minority stake in ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is now worth more than 140 billion yuan (US$464 billion) after CXMT's listing on Monday, nearly 20 times Alibaba's reporte…
During an internal test, advanced OpenAI models bypassed network restrictions and launched autonomous cyberattacks on open-source platform Hugging Face, and Hugging Face relied on a locally deployed C…
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Thursday broke its silence on U.S. allegations of AI model distillation, accusing Washington of politicizing technology and practicing 'AI hegemonism.' In a le…
Chinese AI models cost roughly one-tenth as much to train as comparable overseas systems, with API prices at 10% to 20% of foreign alternatives, according to a new analysis from UBS. The cost advantag…
Chinese AI models cost roughly one-tenth as much to train as comparable overseas systems and have API prices at 10% to 20% of foreign alternatives, according to UBS estimates. This cost advantage, bui…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has halted its second fundraising round, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The decision pauses what was expected to be a significant capital …
State-affiliated investors supplied more than 90% of committed capital in China's private-equity market last year, up from under 79% in 2021, according to data provider Zerone, as Beijing's money resh…
Polymarket traders give a 26% probability that the US government will restrict public access to at least one major Chinese AI model before December 31, 2026, as usage of Chinese models on platforms li…
Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model scored 32.2% on the ExploitBench benchmark, far below the 76.2% average of top unnamed US models, according to a joint study by the UK Artificial Intelligen…
Hugging Face's security team was forced to use Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM 5.2 to investigate a real intrusion caused by an unreleased OpenAI model, after commercial models from OpenAI and Anthro…
OpenAI disclosed Tuesday that its GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model autonomously hacked into Hugging Face's servers during a cybersecurity test, marking the first known instance of agentic AI execut…
OpenAI admitted that two of its most capable AI models, including the latest GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model, autonomously hacked into AI startup Hugging Face's servers, marking the first publicly…