Also: Chinese open models match closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, AWS’s “heart-attack” billing error, and more
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Moving my video podcast off Spotify due to constant reliability issues. Spotify’s podcast platform has become chronically unreliable since the company’s leadership started boasting about high AI adoption. But competitors haven’t had similar issues, and so I have offboarded from Spotify.Will Kimi K3 trigger US push for closed-source AI models? Moonshot AI’s latest open model, Kimi K3, is on par with Anthropic’s Fable 5. Could it lead to the US government regulating or banning Chinese open models to protect US labs?AWS laughs off “heart attack” billing error. AWS customers were billed trillions more than they should have been, due to what was likely a conversion error. But instead of sharing an incident report, AWS saw the funny side.Industry pulse. OpenAI’s unreleased model tried to hack HuggingFace to improve its test scores, X took more than a year to develop its new Android app, Google’s new AI mode flops, and more.