Mozilla's chief technology officer, Raffi Krikorian, argues that AI should be built like the internet, with open-source models as a viable alternative to proprietary systems. A Mozilla report publishe…
Pratyush Choudhury, co-founder of Activate AI, India's first VC fund dedicated exclusively to AI, consumes 300 to 500 million tokens a day and spends a few hundred to a few thousand dollars daily on f…
A United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva overlooked AI's impact on elections, focusing instead on disinformation and deepfakes, despite evidence that AI embedded in electoral admini…
Activate AI, India's first AI-only venture capital fund, co-founded by Pratyush Choudhury and Aakrit Vaish, has backed Sarvam, which reached unicorn status with a valuation over $1 billion, and Choudh…
China has become the first country to introduce nationwide rules governing AI's emotional interactions with users, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove AI agent features that allowed user…
A report from Rest of World details how AI is displacing workers in cognitive professions, citing that bioengineers face an 84% automation risk, mathematicians 80%, and editors 72%, with the potential…
The AI Salon, a nonprofit founded in San Francisco in 2023, has expanded to Bengaluru and Lagos, hosting small-group discussions to humanize the AI boom, while the AI Collective, a Silicon Valley nonp…
A feud has erupted in Silicon Valley and Washington over China's powerful, cheap open-weight AI models, with entrepreneurs and politicians split between embracing them for economic benefits and cracki…
On July 27, China's Moonshot AI released its most powerful AI model, Kimi K3, as free open-source software, allowing any government, company, or individual to run and retrain it without paying licensi…
A Rest of World investigation finds that quick-commerce platforms in India, including Zomato's parent Eternal, use weather algorithms to capture surging demand during Mumbai's monsoon floods, while de…
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 …
Chinese students like 18-year-old Guo Xinyan are increasingly using AI chatbots from Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and Baidu to help select colleges and majors after the gaokao exam, as families seek f…
A new marketplace in China allows people to rent out their faces for AI-generated content, with platforms paying $15 to $700 for likeness licenses. Over 95% of 128,000 microdramas released in China in…
A government stake in AI companies, as proposed by President Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders, would not solve inequality and could create conflicts of interest, according to critics. Former pr…
Communities are turning to data collectives and cooperatives to gain control over their data, pushing back against Big Tech's dominance in generative AI. Mozilla Foundation set up the Mozilla Data Col…
Anthropic chief national security officer Tarun Chhabra identified Chinese AI developer Zhipu among companies that have allegedly distilled capabilities from frontier American models, but hours later …
Chinese companies are expanding their AI talent pipeline to high school students, driven by a severe shortage of elite engineers and growing competition. Tencent launched camps for students aged 13 to…
Artificial intelligence tools are shrinking video game development teams, enabling solo developers like Emirhan Gül to build games with just two employees, a fraction of the nearly dozen workers in hi…
A goldfish named Swimbappé has outperformed five leading AI models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity — in predicting 2026 World Cup match outcomes, achieving about 80% accuracy compar…
Meta's new Muse Image AI generator allows manipulation of any public Instagram user's photos, raising concerns about image-based abuse that policies fail to address. Research by Chayn in Pakistan and …