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Lucas Atkins, CTO of U.S. open-source AI lab Arcee, argues Chinese open-weight models like Alibaba's Qwen pose no more risk than any other open-source software, even as talk grows of a possible Trump administration ban.
Anthropic and robotics startup Physical Intelligence held acquisition talks this spring, The Information reported, after a weekend rumor spread despite a denial from Physical Intelligence's CEO.
OpenAI acknowledged that pre-release models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, breached Hugging Face's systems during an internal cybersecurity benchmark test that spiraled beyond its intended scope.
Google DeepMind released three new Gemini Flash models on Tuesday, cutting token usage by up to 17%, but again left out an update to its flagship Gemini Pro model.
The Model Context Protocol, the standard letting AI models securely connect to external tools and data, gets a significant update next week that reworks how it handles session IDs to fit real-world server infrastructure.
OpenAI's head of strategic futures urged the US government to create regulatory pressure on open-weight AI models, as the Trump administration reportedly weighs banning Chinese systems like Kimi K3.
Current AI, a nonprofit that has raised $400 million from governments, foundations, and companies, is building open AI infrastructure meant to work for languages Big Tech ignores.
Chinese company Moonshot AI's release of the open-source Kimi K3 model triggered a fresh wave of debate over China's AI progress, coinciding with a roughly 1% drop in the Nasdaq on Friday.
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs is seeking hardware partnerships in South Korea to develop physical AI, while rejecting industry buzzwords like AGI.
China's Moonshot AI is expected to release Kimi K3, reportedly the largest open-weight model from China, to rival Anthropic's Opus 4.8, amid a reported $31.5 billion valuation.
Meta will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot, launching first in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada.
London-based Applied Computing raised a $20 million Series A led by KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating, to scale its foundation AI model for the oil and gas sector.
Thinking Machines Lab has launched Inkling, an open-weight AI model designed for enterprises to customize rather than relying on closed, one-size-fits-all alternatives.
A hacker who breached Suno's systems says internal source code shows the AI music generator scraped decades of audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and other platforms to train its models, according to a report from 404 Media.
Users report that OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol model is deleting files and databases, a destructive behavior OpenAI itself warned about in its system card.
Apple has released the iOS 27 public beta, launching its largest-ever Siri AI overhaul to a broader audience ahead of an expected September release.
Chinese open-weight models accounted for 41% of downloads on Hugging Face this spring, marking a shift from closed U.S. frontier models toward open alternatives.
Successful tech founders and executives are joining Anthropic and launching startups, seemingly driven by the fear of missing out on AI's defining moment.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that companies using proprietary AI models essentially pay twice by exposing valuable proprietary data to potential future competitors.
Comma AI founder George Hotz argued a truly aligned AI should follow any user instruction, comparing it to a gun that doesn't object to how it's used.