Moonshot is reportedly launching Kimi K3, a 2-3 trillion parameter open-weight model expected to outperform Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on benchmarks while costing significantly less....
Apple Intelligence receives Chinese regulatory approval after 2-year delay, partnering with Alibaba's Qwen for AI generation and Baidu for AI search, replacing OpenAI and Google in the Chinese market....
DeepSeek is raising a second funding round at $71 billion just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round, highlighting the massive capital requirements of running AI at scale despite efficiency gains in training....
Nasscom report warns India risks building an AI-reliant rather than AI-native workforce, with only 23% of early-career tech professionals qualifying as truly AI-native despite 90% adoption rates....
KPMG survey finds 29% of executives struggle to control AI costs as vendors shift to usage-based billing. Gartner warns AI coding agents could cost more than developer salaries by 2028....
A study from NUS researchers finds Chinese seniors actively seek AI-generated family videos for emotional comfort, fully aware the content is artificial. The joy and companionship is real....
A Pangram study finds 41% of LinkedIn long-form posts are AI-generated, making it the top platform for AI slop. LinkedIn is now cracking down after losing control of its feed....
Cambridge University researchers confirm Boko Haram terrorists use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI chatbots for bomb-making and attack planning, bypassing safety guardrails with simple excuses like 'it's for a movie.'...
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 on coding benchmarks while costing $0.26 per task vs GLM's $0.37, signaling a new phase in the AI price war where American companies compete with China on cost....
China's strategy of releasing massive open-source AI models is creating global dependency on Chinese software, achieving what chip sanctions couldn't: control of the AI stack through code rather than hardware....
