Chinese AI labs have released three models nearly as powerful as America's frontier systems at radically lower costs, threatening the expected hyper-profitability of U.S. labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, which capital mar…
China's Moonshot AI released its most powerful chatbot, Kimi K3, for free on July 27, allowing any government, company, or individual to run it on their own computers without paying the Beijing-based developer. The Aliba…
An AI-powered thermal camera system called WhaleSpotter is being piloted on a San Francisco Bay ferry and on Angel Island to detect gray whales and alert crews to avoid collisions, after 21 whales died in the bay last ye…
Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta used second-quarter earnings to signal a turning point in the AI infrastructure race, focusing on deployment speed, power availability and networking scale rather than GPU supply. Microsoft C…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft's Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model via OpenAI-compatible APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi among more than 20 ope…
OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, offers a free alternative to Claude Code. It works in the terminal, desktop, and as a VS Code extension, supporting free models with daily usage limits and custom API keys.
AI product engineers face a common reliability problem: when a streaming AI response reaches 90% completion and disconnects, the system must decide whether to resume from the interruption, restart from scratch, or restor…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, DeepSeek finalized V4, and Moonshot AI published the open-weight Kimi K3 (2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model) during the biggest AI release week of 2026, fundamentally reshaping the coding…
Abhinav Jain presents seven hackathon problems for Python developers in 2026, focusing on AI tooling and real-world issues. The first problem, 'The Memory Tax,' challenges teams to build a lightweight personal memory lay…
Google's new AI-assisted coding interview for L3 and L4 engineers, piloted since May 2026 on teams like Google Cloud and Platforms & Devices, is harder than traditional interviews because it tests candidates' ability to …
A new interactive prototype, 'Two Eyes Arguing,' stages real-time moral disagreements between two AI-driven eyes, each anchored to a different 'order of worth' from the sociology of justification by Luc Boltanski and Lau…
A senior AI engineer argues that the biggest source of unnecessary LLM cost in production AI agents is not the model choice but the retrieval strategy, citing that a smarter query planning approach can save more tokens t…
Samsung executives said the RAM shortage is expected to continue through 2028, with unmet demand from 2026 carrying over into 2027 and further constraining supply. Samsung's semiconductor division reported nearly $62 bil…
Zhongji Innolight raised HK$53.41 billion ($6.81 billion) in its Hong Kong H-share IPO, pricing shares at HK$980 each, with trading set to begin July 30. The retail tranche was 9.17 times oversubscribed, attracting HK$55…
Elon Musk's xAI sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Monday, days before the state's first-in-the-nation ban on AI nudification apps takes effect August 1. The 38-page lawsuit argues the law is overly broad, …
The European Union launched an AI Gigafactories call to expand Europe's AI computing capacity, backed by up to €10 billion in EU and national funding, aiming to unlock at least €20 billion in private investment. The init…
Coolpad plans to expand into AI infrastructure in 2026, covering AI computing devices, intelligent storage systems and integrated solutions, according to a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing. The company will establish an A…
The eurozone economy grew 0.4% in the second quarter, beating expectations of 0.2%, driven by surging AI investment and government spending, Eurostat data showed on Thursday. Annual growth accelerated to 1.0%, above the …
A new study finds that fine-tuning open-source language models on teacher model outputs can cause the student models to adopt the teacher's identity, even when no identity information is present in the training data. Res…
Debian developers are weighing five proposals for a general resolution on AI and large language model (LLM) usage within the project, ranging from an outright ban on LLM-assisted contributions (Proposal A) to allowing AI…