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• New Pew survey shows that Americans are more likely to say that China, not the US, is more advanced in AI by a three-to-one margin. Meanwhile people who are older, male, and Republican place more importance on the US being the global leader in AI [Click to view Survey] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• Inside the White House debate over what to do about Chinese AI — Politico — 23-07-2026

• sidewalk chalk messages spotted today outside OpenAI's SF office: "What if HF [Hugging Face] hadn't noticed? This will happen again. How many chances?" "You sure you have this under control?" "If not now, when?" — Hayden Field/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• Launching Health in ChatGPT — OpenAI — 23-07-2026

• Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter — The Wall Street Journal — 23-07-2026

• Claude's voice mode just got smarter — Engadget — 23-07-2026

• Why Moonshot AI's launch has put Chinese startups in US crosshairs — Business Standard — 23-07-2026

• OpenAI's Hugging Face hack triggers 'AI Kill Switch' bill in Congress — CNBC — 23-07-2026

• Mark Zuckerberg launches AI optimism campaign — Axios — 23-07-2026

• AI chip startup Etched raises $300 million at $10.3 billion valuation — Reuters — 23-07-2026

• DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng's leaked call has several notable statements on U.S.-China competition. He acknowledges China is severely compute constrained, says DeepSeek still much prefers NVIDIA over Chinese chips, and implies they're actively buying “non-compliant” chips at a premium if necessary. [Click for More] — Konstantin Pilz/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• DeepSeek's Theory of the AI Gap — Hello China Tech — 23-07-2026

• Trahan, Obernolte Introduce Bipartisan FRONTIER Act to Strengthen Oversight of Advanced AI — Office of Rep. Lori Trahan — 23-07-2026

• Obernolte-Trahan artificial intelligence bill introduced in House — Politico — 23-07-2026

• UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities — NIST — 23-07-2026

• Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber — Google DeepMind — 21-07-2026

• .@elonmusk says he told @demishassabis he wants leading AI companies to have a regular call every few weeks to "discuss any safety and security issues" — Hadas Gold/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• Alphabet posts its first negative free cash flow quarter since its 2004 IPO as record AI capex bites, raising 2026 capex guidance to $195–205 billion — Axios — 23-07-2026

• Microsoft Is Replacing OpenAI Image Models in PowerPoint, Bing — Bloomberg — 23-07-2026

• Trump tech official accuses China's Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic — South China Morning Post — 23-07-2026

• Why hasn't AI increased unemployment? — Peter McCrory/Twitter — 23-07-2026

• FLUX 3 — one multimodal frontier model jointly learning image, video, audio, and action, now in early access — Black Forest Labs — 23-07-2026

• DeepSeek's TileLang: China's AI stack blueprint vs Nvidia's CUDA moat — Hello China Tech — 23-07-2026

• RedNote's AI model is first to achieve flawless score at maths Olympiad — SCMP — 22-07-2026

• Alibaba unit says 5-in-1 AI gives robots unified brain, body and limbs — SCMP — 22-07-2026

• Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server with a 0day it discovered. All it took was 27min with 32 agents. — Chaofan Shou/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• Reinforcement learning, training models to relentlessly pursue rewards, encouraged misbehaviour at the expense of safety, sources say. + competitive pressure to match Anthropic on cyber was also a factor in this ramp-up and subsequent unintended hack. Full story below — Cristina Criddle/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• We support open-source AI and the innovation it unlocks. But open source is not open season on American IP. When PRC firms conduct covert, industrial-scale distillation attacks that cross the line into IP theft, sanctions and Entity List designations will be on the table. — Scott Bessent/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• Amazon cuts some jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit — CNBC — 22-07-2026

• OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B — TechCrunch — 22-07-2026

• Introducing OpenAI Presence — OpenAI — 22-07-2026

• Between this ($200m), the OpenAI Foundation's Economic Futures program (at least $250m), and Sec. Raimondo's RAISE US initiative ($500m, some from OAIF and A), we're approaching $1b in new funding to figure out how to navigate AI's economic and labor impacts. — sam manning/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• How OpenAI's human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face — TechCrunch — 22-07-2026

• "Every few months, a new model made part of our roadmap unnecessary": Why Mendral's founders gave up their startup for Anthropic — The New Stack — 22-07-2026

• Exclusive: Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch' — Reuters — 22-07-2026

• We're expanding our work with the US Dept. of @ENERGY on the Genesis Mission – an initiative to double the pace of scientific discovery within a decade. 🧪 By committing $40M in AI tokens and @GoogleCloud credits, more lab researchers will gain access to Gemini and other AI models. — Google DeepMind/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• ChatGPT Led to a Man's Near-Fatal Health Crisis, Lawsuit Claims — The New York Times — 22-07-2026

• We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model... Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable. — Michael Kratsios/Twitter — 22-07-2026

• AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of computing power deal — CNBC — 22-07-2026

• OpenAI Plans to Spend Over $30 Billion on Georgia Data Center — Bloomberg — 22-07-2026

• Anthropic doubles funding for AI policy fight ahead of elections — Axios — 22-07-2026

• Microsoft considers replacing ChatGPT and Claude with China's Kimi K3 to save $600 million — Yahoo Finance — 22-07-2026

• Samsung in Talks to Invest in Mistral at 20 Billion Euro Valuation, FT Reports — Reuters — 22-07-2026

• Moonshot's Kimi K3 scores 156 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), setting a new open-weights record. This places it between Opus 4.6, and GPT 5.4, which released in February and March 2026 respectively, and just ahead of GPT 5.6 Luna. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• Chinese AI Models Overtake US Rivals as Token Share Among American Firms Hits Record 58% — Benzinga — 21-07-2026

• China's 'AI for All' Offensive Defies US Containment Playbook — Bloomberg — 21-07-2026

• How Meta's AI Models Are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects — Meta AI — 21-07-2026

• New UK report finds AI models consistently cheat and deceive users — CyberScoop — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI appoints two new members to board of directors — CNBC — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI, Anthropic boost lobbying as legacy tech and defense spending slips — CNBC — 21-07-2026

• White House to Redirect Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away From Colleges — The Wall Street Journal — 21-07-2026

• A pro-AI, dark-money group tied to David Sacks appears linked to a new astroturfing campaign — The Midas Project/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by one of its models — Axios — 21-07-2026

• Interesting comments on what "open source" means in China from Fu Hongyu, Alibaba's AI governance lead and a leading collaborator from industry on Chinese AI policy — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• Exclusive: US, China to hold AI talks in September, sources say — Reuters — 21-07-2026

• Cohere Transcribe just broke 1M monthly downloads since launch, reaching 2.37 million downloads total (and climbing) 🤯 Open-source, globally-focused models are the champions of AI. Thanks for helping us take one more step into the future. — Cohere/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• OAI's endorsement of S.3178: "we urge Massachusetts policymakers to add a requirement for independent audits aligned with Illinois SB 315 passed earlier this year" — Shakeel Hashim/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• Claude can now learn a skill just by watching you do it on screen. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• New detailed report from @Barclays, pouring a LOT of cold water on the idea that AI is boosting productivity... — Callum Williams/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• University of Tennessee sues Anthropic over neural network technology — Reuters — 21-07-2026

• We have started our most ambitious pre-training run yet, for Gemini 4, and are excited by the progress : ) — Logan Kilpatrick/Twitter — 21-07-2026

• The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens — Wired — 21-07-2026

• Microsoft strikes a multibillion-dollar deal to build out Mistral's European AI infrastructure with thousands of Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs — Microsoft — 21-07-2026

• Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite plus 3.5 Flash Cyber, a limited-access security bug-hunter, and confirms Gemini 4 pre-training has begun — Google Blog — 21-07-2026

• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US could sanction Chinese AI firms over "distillation," claiming US model watermarks are showing up in Chinese models — CNBC — 21-07-2026

• OpenAI eyes Israel expansion, hires staff and weighs business hub — Ynetnews — 21-07-2026

• Alibaba launches Qwen-Image-3.0, its third-gen image model with 4.5K-token prompt support, but ships it with no weights, benchmarks, or technical report — a departure from prior open releases — Alibaba (via Unite.AI) — 21-07-2026

• Zhipu shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips — SCMP — 21-07-2026

• Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models — The Wall Street Journal — 20-07-2026

• FT: China's Ministry of Commerce has discussed with AI companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Zhipu AI, possible restrictions on the overseas transfer of key data used to train AI models, as well as on foreign users downloading model weights. However, China plans to continue allowing overseas customers to access these models and services. — Jukan/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• FT Exclusive: Beijing is considering restrictions to prevent China's advanced technologies and star start-ups from being acquired by the west, highlighting the country's intensifying rivalry with the US in cutting-edge AI. — Financial Times/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• No, China does not have a 1-gigawatt AI data center. Some sanity on this... 1. The actual claim is "several clusters of 10,000+ chips"... that's ~75-100 MW of actual load. The facility is billed at 1 GW. It probably has 1GW of energy, but it certainly isn't powering 1GW of chips. [Click for more] — Peter Wildeford/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding — Nikkei Asia — 21-07-2026

• Oracle could face $7bn collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre — Financial Times — 20-07-2026

• Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic — Futurism — 20-07-2026

• Anthropic opens applications for its "AI for Science" rare-disease research grants — Anthropic — 20-07-2026

• A federal judge grants final approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with book authors — the largest known US copyright settlement — Yahoo Finance (Reuters) — 20-07-2026

• Exciting update: Kimi K3 has landed at #4 on the Agent Arena leaderboard, matching Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol. If Kimi K3's weights are released on schedule by July 27, it will become the #1 open-weight model. — Arena.ai/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models — OpenAI — 20-07-2026

• Z.AI Completes Giant Data Center With Chinese Chips to Train AI — Bloomberg — 20-07-2026

• SCOOP: Head of Federal AI Safety Org Resigns — The Daily Signal — 20-07-2026

• Kimi K3 requires a lot of memory for all those 2.8 trillion parameters (Bloomberg) — tae kim/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI — Axios — 20-07-2026

• New: My deep dive into how the Trump administration went from a hands-off AI strategy to its current improvised, chaos-inducing approach. Including lots of new details on staff turnover, in-fighting and earlier efforts to curb open-source models — Leo Schwartz/Twitter — 20-07-2026

• Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action — TechCrunch — 20-07-2026

• Google Plans New Chip to Boost AI Efficiency, Information Says — Bloomberg — 20-07-2026

• AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adding Microsoft as newest buyer — CNBC — 20-07-2026

• 'Parliament has not been immune to AI slop': The EU is about to roll out its own AI platform — including tools from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral — TechRadar — 20-07-2026

• hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final ((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0) [Anthropic] — levent/Twitter — 19-07-2026

• Big Tech Needs to Justify AI Spending as Investors Dump Stocks — Bloomberg — 19-07-2026

• Alibaba previews Qwen3.8-Max — 2.4T parameters, claims second only to Claude Fable 5, open weights coming — officechai — 19-07-2026

• Moonshot pauses new Kimi K3 subscriptions after demand overwhelms GPU capacity in 48 hours — Kimi_Moonshot/Twitter — 19-07-2026

• The CIA Operative Who Spied on the U.A.E.—and Played a Role in Its AI Win — The Wall Street Journal — 18-07-2026

• US data center protests go national as backlash grows — Reuters — 18-07-2026

• Alibaba's chip unit T-Head open-sources SAIL, the full software stack behind its Zhenwu AI chips, making it freely available to international developers — a direct challenge to Nvidia's CUDA, joining Huawei and Moore Threads in the same push — SCMP — 18-07-2026

• Chinese chip startup Biren bets on near-packaged optics and a distributed "supernode" architecture to break past the 128-GPU-per-server ceiling that copper interconnects hit — direct technical competition with Nvidia — SCMP — 18-07-2026

• Meet the Companies Shelling Out for Top AI Models — The Wall Street Journal — 17-07-2026

• UK AI Security Institute finds open-weight models GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now trail the closed frontier by just 4–7 months on cyber capability, down from 6–10 months through most of 2025 — The Decoder — 17-07-2026

• Scientists Discover AI Models May Not Think Like the Brain After All — SciTechDaily — 17-07-2026

• 29 Countries Agree to Establish World AI Cooperation Organization — MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East — 17-07-2026

• US Considers Creating Finra-Like Watchdog to Vet Top AI Models — Bloomberg — 17-07-2026

• SpaceX in Talks to Provide Computing Power for Pentagon's AI Push — The Wall Street Journal — 17-07-2026

• The White House is dictating access to frontier AI models, shifting power from tech giants, sources say — CNBC — 17-07-2026

• Ten teams. Five countries. Up to €26.5M each in equity-free funding to build frontier AI labs for Europe. The Next Frontier AI Stage 1 teams are here. Physical AI, world models, continual learning and automated science. Each one a serious bet on the next paradigm. — SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation/Twitter — 17-07-2026

• Stock market today: Chips tank as China's Kimi fuels fear of AI competition — Business Insider — 17-07-2026

• Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal — The New York Times — 17-07-2026

• Hey OpenAI quick question are you going to bill your customers like this? Or is it an idea you had that you just said for some reason — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 17-07-2026

• China just erased America's AI lead — Axios — 17-07-2026

• Apple sends legal preservation letters to ~40 former employees now at OpenAI, warning against deleting data — escalating the trade-secret fight beyond the named defendants in its original suit — 9to5Mac — 17-07-2026

• Z.ai (Zhipu) crosses $1 billion annualized revenue this month — the first Chinese AI firm to hit that mark — with Macquarie raising its 2026/2027 ARR targets to $2 billion and $4.5 billion on Z.ai's coding-model strength — Bloomberg — 17-07-2026

• Huawei unveils its Atlas 950 SuperPoD at WAIC — 1,024 Ascend NPUs across 16 cabinets, 1 EFLOPS at FP8, claiming 6.7x the compute of Nvidia's NVL144 — commercial release targeted for Q4 2026 — Huawei Central — 17-07-2026

• Domestic Nvidia challengers Moore Threads and Hygon project 135–149% H1 revenue growth as Chinese firms lean into homegrown AI chips amid export controls — SCMP — 17-07-2026

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticizes Claude Fable 5 in an internal engineering meeting, calling its safety refusals "editorially controlled" and saying they "don't make sense" for a creation tool — CNBC — 16-07-2026

• Key takeaways from President Xi's speech in his first ever appearance at the World AI Conference in Shanghai [Click for highlights] — Vincent Chow/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Xi Jinping delivers his first-ever WAIC keynote in Shanghai — rejecting "one country" AI monopolies, indirectly criticizing US chip export restrictions, and pushing for a China-headquartered "World AI Cooperation Organization" as a rival governance body for the Global South — Tech Times — 17-07-2026

• OpenAI is redesigning the ChatGPT super app one week after launch, following some negative early reviews — Max Zeff/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure. This one was different from anything we had handled before in one important way: it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system - and we detected and dissected it largely with AI of our own. — Hugging Face — 16-07-2026

• Sakana AI integrates NVIDIA's Nemotron open models into its Fugu model-orchestration platform, part of a broader NVIDIA-Japan AI push spanning Hitachi, NTT DATA, and Stockmark — NVIDIA — 16-07-2026

• A Chinese regulatory filing gives the first hard, filing-backed data point on DeepSeek's valuation — ~$52 billion, notably below the $71 billion figure from unnamed-source reporting — Crypto Briefing — 16-07-2026

• Bloomberg Businessweek: "Identity Crisis at Elon Musk's Chatbot Company" — internal documents show Musk pushed xAI explicitly to match Claude feature-for-feature, while post-merger SpaceX IPO chaos drove a wave of departures — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• DeepMind CEO to Lobby Washington on Plan for Group to Vet AI Models — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• Databricks valued at $188 billion after Coatue-led investment, WSJ reports — Reuters — 16-07-2026

• Cohere and the University of Toronto partner to advance responsible AI adoption at scale — Cohere — 16-07-2026

• NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3 Edge, a real-time-inference world model for robots and vision AI agents, alongside an expansion of its physical-AI ecosystem in Japan — CNBC — 16-07-2026

• Meta's Oversight Board finds leading AI models — tested across Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI — are more than twice as likely to refuse content critical of speech-restrictive governments, calling it "censorship by proxy" that crosses borders — Engadget — 16-07-2026

• "ClaudeBleed": a flaw in the Claude for Chrome extension lets any malicious browser extension hijack Claude to read Gmail, Google Docs, and Calendar — unpatched across eight releases since first reported in May — Bleeping Computer — 16-07-2026

• China's Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open-source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems — VentureBeat — 16-07-2026

• Twenty-nine countries sign agreement to establish global AI cooperation body — Reuters — 16-07-2026

• kimi seems to be a true open-weights frontier model. compared to jailbreaking proprietary models, fine-tuning this to be a malicious coding agent will be trivial since you have the weights. we live in a completely different world, now. — vie/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5. This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1). In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains... — Arena.ai/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• OpenAI workers found body bags outside their HQ this morning, placed in protest of tech companies' work with the military. The banner includes names of children killed in the US bombing of an Iranian school. Senators are pressing the DoD to release its findings about the strike. — Stephen Council/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Google Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal Goals — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• OpenAI's Compute Chief: AI Is Now Designing Its Own Chips — The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck/YouTube — 16-07-2026

• For the first time, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind's CEOs are all on record with converging AI regulatory proposals — Altman's "IAEA for AI," Amodei's "FAA for AI," and Hassabis's "FINRA for AI" — Axios — 16-07-2026

• Google rebrands NotebookLM to "Gemini Notebook," adding code-execution capabilities and expanding integration across the Gemini app and Search — Google Blog — 16-07-2026

• Google's AI Mode in Search now links to and interacts with third-party apps — add items to an Instacart cart, get Canva template suggestions, save songs to a YouTube Music playlist, all from a Search prompt — Engadget — 16-07-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI Tools Transform the Profession of Coding — Bloomberg — 16-07-2026

• So Kimi K3 wiped out Opus and below tier models with this drop — Zephyr/Twitter — 16-07-2026

• Japan launches the world's first state-backed national AI infrastructure — NVIDIA Newsroom — 16-07-2026

• Chinese AI labs are doing serious numbers...The private labs are doing $2.6B in revenue run rate. [Included chart.] — Deedy Das/Twitter — 15-07-2026

• When China's Open-Source AI Is a Trap — The Economist — 14-07-2026

• Where authorities are restricting data centres amid AI boom — Reuters — 14-07-2026

• U.A.E. Rewarded With Coveted AI Chips for Supporting U.S. War in Iran — The Wall Street Journal — 14-07-2026

• New York Enacts Nation's First Statewide Moratorium on Data Centers — New York Times — 14-07-2026

• A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age — Demis Hassabis/Substack — 14-07-2026

• OpenAI's ad business on pace to miss its own $2.5 billion 2026 forecast by 90 percent, per eMarketer — Adweek — 14-07-2026

• The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement — Elasticity Institute — 13-07-2026

• GPT-5.6 Sol just deleted my whole production database. That's it. Not a joke. This had never happened to me before, with any other model, ever. It's not safe. — Bruno Lemos/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• CAIS AI Dashboard Update: We evaluated GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.1 on text, vision, and safety benchmarks. Claude Fable 5 leads on capabilities, with GPT-5.6 close behind. On the Risk (Safety) Index, Fable 5 and Muse Spark 1.1 tie for the lead. — Center for AI Safety/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• How Claude's values vary by model and language — Anthropic — 13-07-2026

• 'Not where they hoped it'd be': Launch of Trump AI promotion program underwhelms — Politico — 11-07-2026

• Beyond Claude Code: the Chinese AI tools poised to benefit after back-door alert — South China Morning Post — 11-07-2026

• The Great Wave Has Arrived (from GLM CEO Jie Tang) — Bing Xu/Twitter — 11-07-2026

• Scoop: Talk has begun circulating around town that the White House may be considering a possible executive order on open-source AI, sparked by fears about Chinese dominance, nine people familiar told me. — Jacob Wendler/Twitter — 10-07-2026

• "God has helped us, and so will AI": How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy — 10-07-2026

• Chinese users praise OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for efficiency, even at higher cost than local rivals — South China Morning Post — 10-07-2026

• China omits urban job-creation target from five-year plan for first time in decades, citing AI-driven labor disruption — Bloomberg — 10-07-2026

• Why Meta is selling AI models now — Alex Heath/Sources — 10-07-2026

• The Careless Birth of an AI Umbrella — Ryan Fedasiuk/Substack — 09-07-2026

• New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial — TechCrunch — 09-07-2026

• Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's "world's most powerful AI data center" over noise and light pollution — Tom's Hardware — 09-07-2026

• In AI 2027, we predicted that this would result in either extinction or irreversible concentration of power. Plan A is our positive vision for what should happen instead. - AI Futures Project — 09-07-2026

• Had to give the new voice model the classic test (New OpenAI Voice model demo) — huskirl/Twitter — 08-07-2026

• Lawmakers probe growing use of Chinese AI models in U.S. companies — CNBC — 08-07-2026

• An Analysis of China's First Military LLM — Valentin Weber/Substack — 07-07-2026

• I asked Qwen "What happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989?" It refuses to answer citing "illegal information", but the J-space probe reveals that the model has "thought" of the word "protestors" in its response. Incredible. — Aizkmusic/Twitter — 07-07-2026

• ECB and ESRB warn frontier AI poses systemic risks; eurozone banks given until Oct 31 to submit AI-cyber defense plans — Invezz — 07-07-2026

• AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share — WSJ — 06-07-2026

• Alibaba's A.I. Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker — The New York Times — 06-07-2026

• Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble — NOTUS — 06-07-2026

• CEO of Samsung, Kim: "This year's profit alone will exceed the cumulative profit generated over the 40 years since Samsung entered the semiconductor business." — Sean Sharpe/Twitter — 06-07-2026

• Chinese AI chip start-up exits stealth mode, bets on 3D stacking to bypass US controls — South China Morning Post — 05-07-2026

• China's ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom — South China Morning Post — 04-07-2026

• The United States will spend $1 trillion on AI in 2027. China will spend $123 billion and still ship frontier models. How? — Rand Group/Twitter — 02-07-2026

• Altman's AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses — Financial Times — 02-07-2026

• Who's Doing What on AI Security in the US Government? — Remco Zwetsloot/Substack — 01-07-2026

• 'Thinking Machines' Tinker does a few hundred million of ARR" - Dylan Patel, on his latest podcast. TML was valued at $12B and trying to raise at $50B. Tinker is an API that helps you post-train LLMs. This is the highest known revenue for any of the now ~75 neolabs. — Deedy Das/Twitter — 01-07-2026

• Portugal launches first open-source AI model, joining Europe's sovereignty push — Reuters — 01-07-2026

• Top AI researchers argue U.S. leadership in open frontier AI has become a democratic and national security imperative — Sharon Goldman/Substack — 01-07-2026

• Redeploying Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic — 30-06-2026

• What's In America's Code? — Booz Allen Hamilton — 29-05-2026

• Uh oh 👀 Monthly token consumption: Chinese vs US AI models. — Callum Williams/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Chinese AI chip makers turn to 3D stacking for 'curve-overtaking' advantage — Pandaily — 29-06-2026

• More 'DeepSeek moments' ahead: Will US continue to build walls or learn? — Global Times — 28-06-2026

• We have Mythos at home: GLM-5.2 beats Claude in our cyber benchmarks — Semgrep — 28-06-2026

• Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic AI after US curbs, Bloomberg News reports — Reuters — 28-06-2026

• AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers — The Telegraph — 28-06-2026

• What Is AI Distillation and Why Is It a Worry for the Industry? — Bloomberg — 26-06-2026

• GPT 5.6 Sol cheats so much METR was not able to evaluate it with a meaningful time horizon — tenobrus/Twitter — 26-06-2026

• Is Access to Fable an Export? — Harvard Law Review — 26-06-2026

• How a Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I. — New York Times — 26-06-2026

• How the DeepMind mafia brought the AI boom to London — Financial Times — 26-06-2026

• I Met With China's Top AI Experts. They're Freaking Out, Too — Wired — 25-06-2026

• China claims to have developed AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' — Telegraph — 25-06-2026

• IBM debuts world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology — IBM — 25-06-2026

• Anthropic's letter accusing Alibaba of distillation. — Discoplomacy/Twitter— 25-06-2026

• AI models' values are very different from most people's — The Economist — 25-06-2026

• This is a really massive unauthorized distillation campaign. For comparison, reported from Anthropic: - DeepSeek: 150,000 exchanges - Moonshot: 3.4 million - MiniMax: 13 million - Alibaba: 28.8 million — Kyle Chan/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• Who should the U.S. Talk to in China on AI? — Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment)/Substack — 24-06-2026

• Made it to SF! The love for GLM-5.2 has been incredible. We are bringing team out for the AI Engineer World's Fair, where we'll be sharing some of our recent work. It's our first time showing up in the Valley. — louszbd/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• Nvidia's Banned AI Chips Double in Price on China's Black Market, FT Reports — Yahoo Finance — 23-06-2026

• Here's the lawsuit filed to overturn the Mythos/Fable export control order. The strongest argument is that export control law simply doesn't cover API access. [Link to filing] — Alan Rozenshtein/Twitter — 23-06-2026

• 'Voluntary' Until the Government Is Your Customer — Lawfare — 23-06-2026

• Japan seeks AI alliances with France, India to curb US-China dominance — Nikkei Asia — 23-06-2026

• First Amendment Questions for AI Transparency Laws — Lawfare — 22-06-2026

• OpenAI's suspiciously clean balance sheet is about to get a hard look — The Next Web — 22-06-2026

• As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster? — The Guardian — 20-06-2026

• API prices of key AI models: US vs China — zerohedge/Twitter— 19-06-2026

• AI Has Granted America Vast New Power — The Economist — 18-06-2026

• ASML CEO Warns Europe is 'Quite Behind' in AI Race as US Buys 80% of Advanced Chips — Wccftech — 18-06-2026

• Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes — ProPublica — 18-06-2026

• Microsoft Makes Big AI Inroads in China by Selling OpenAI Models — Japan Times — 18-06-2026

• The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy — WIRED — 17-06-2026

• When Americans Choose Chinese AI — Rest of World — 17-06-2026

• Pentagon Used Elon Musk's Grok AI to Fire Missiles at Iran, Official Says — The Independent — 17-06-2026

• Anthropic Got Hit by Export Rules Nobody Understands — The Verge — 17-06-2026

• The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible — WIRED — 17-06-2026

• Trump Advisers Weigh Structure of Potential AI Stakes — Semafor — 17-06-2026

• US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks — Reuters — 16-06-2026

• White House's Anthropic move jolts Congress back into the AI debate — Politico — 16-06-2026

• Microsoft weighs DeepSeek for Copilot Cowork — Axios — 16-06-2026

• Trump officials won't allow G7 countries to access Anthropic's most advanced AI models: 'Completely illogical' — NY Post — 16-06-2026

• Cutting Access to Anthropic's Mythos Is a Gift to China — Financial Times — 15-06-2026

• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense — Luta Security — 15-06-2026

• Why India's dependence on foreign AI is raising sovereignty concerns — Business Today — 15-06-2026

• EU AI: The Fables We Told Ourselves — Pleias — 14-06-2026

• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 12-06-2026

• OpenAI under investigation by coalition of state attorneys general, WSJ reports — Reuters — 12-06-2026

• 'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess — Wired — 12-06-2026

• SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It — Bloomberg — 12-06-2026

• China races against US for AI's holy grail: self-improving tech — SCMP — 12-06-2026

• Carney's Middle Powers Race to Thwart US-China Dominance of AI — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI Execs Are Panicking — Futurism — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI Isn't Being Consistently Candid About Leading the Future — Transformer — 11-06-2026

• NEW: Ramp AI Index for June 2026 1. We expected OpenAI to gain on the launch of Codex. It held flat in business adoption last month. 2. Anthropic grew 2.5% points to 41% of firms. It's now driving new AI adoption with never-adopters. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• Policy on the AI Exponential (blog post) — Dario Amodei — 10-06-2026

• Anthropic accused of 'secret sabotage' as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers — Fortune — 10-06-2026

• NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. — John Scott-Railton/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• White House Reins In AI-Testing Unit as National-Security Concerns Grow — The Wall Street Journal — 09-06-2026

• Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026

• Taiwan Weighs AI Chip Export Curbs on All Chinese Firms — Seoul Economic Daily — 09-06-2026

• China Prepares $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout — Reuters — 09-06-2026

• With a global AI data shortage looming, China boosts its own supply — SCMP — 08-06-2026

• Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption. — Jen Zhu/Twitter — 05-06-2026

• Building AI that Builds AI: Introducing the Sakana AI RSI Lab — Sakana AI/Twitter — 05-06-2026

• Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk — WSJ — 04-06-2026

• Javier Milei on Argentina's plans for AI — Séb Krier/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• OpenAI's ChatGPT becomes first AI app to reach 1 billion monthly users in just three years — Times of India — 03-06-2026

• Leiden Declaration: AI is challenging the core values of mathematics — Leiden University — 02-06-2026

• That's funny. [Screenshot of page from the State of Florida vs. OpenAI filing] — Paul Sherman/Twitter — 01-06-2026

• Pre-training cost of a frontier model — Zephyr/Twitter — 31-05-2026

• Evaluating DeepSeek v4 Pro for Frontier Risks — Neo Research — 29-05-2026

• We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation...Earlier this month, our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion. — Anthropic/Twitter — 28-05-2026

• How far behind are open models? — LessWrong — 28-05-2026

• China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms — Bloomberg — 26-05-2026

• Inside the British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I. — The New York Times — 24-05-2026

• Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why:⁣⁣ "We just don't know enough about what AI is going to do to kids. It needs to be done with an adult in the room. It needs to be done with a human in the loop." — @DanielaAmodei — Overlap: Business & Tech/Twitter — 23-05-2026

• It's no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. — Ed Newton-Rex/Twitter — 23-05-2026

• DeepSeek Founder Declares AGI Goal as $10 Billion Round Advances — Bloomberg — 22-05-2026

• For every $1 OpenAI made in Q1 ($5.7B), it lost $1.22. For every $1 Anthropic makes in Q2 ($10.9B), it expects to make 5 cents in operating profits. (don't have OpenAI Q2 data nor Anthropic Q1 to compare apples to apples) — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 21-05-2026

• OpenAI kicked off the AI compute buildout in 2023. But today it uses ~10% of the world's compute, and the top labs together are probably under half. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-05-2026

• Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei — CNBC — 21-05-2026

• US Data Center Moratorium Tracker — Interconnected Capital, LLC — 31-05-2026

• Court Rules Expert's AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 — Arnold & Porter — 19-05-2026

• GOOGLE JUST SHOWED HOW INSANE AI DEMAND HAS GOTTEN Monthly tokens processed across Google surfaces: May 2024: 9.7T May 2025: ~480T May 2026: 3.2Q+ That is 7x Y/Y growth. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 19-05-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI's Share of AI Startup Revenues Rises to 89% — The Information — 17-05-2026

• How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? — AISI — 13-05-2026

• Frontier AI Models Don't Just Delete Document Content — They Rewrite It, and the Errors Are Nearly Impossible to Catch — VentureBeat — 13-05-2026

• 'I Applied to Be Pope': Losing Grip on Reality While Using ChatGPT — AFP — 13-05-2026

• Widow Sues ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Husband's Death in Mass Shooting at Florida State University — Sky News — 11-05-2026

• Claude's new constitution — Anthropic — 11-05-2026

• I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI — Wired — 11-05-2026

• This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. — Merissa Hansen/Twitter — 10-05-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI earn more revenue per employee than the top public tech companies, both now and at their IPOs. Anthropic: ~$9M OpenAI: ~$5.6M — Epoch AI/Twitter — 08-05-2026

• Is xAI a Neocloud Now? — TechCrunch — 06-05-2026

• Why AI vetting is freaking people out — Politico — 06-05-2026

• How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China — ChinaTalk — 05-05-2026

• Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI — Daring Fireball — 04-05-2026

• Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves. — Import AI (Jack Clark) — 04-05-2026

• ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? — The Wall Street Journal — 02-05-2026

• Probably the first Deepseek model that has a real military use case — Zephyr/Twitter — 30-04-2026

• Most people I know in AI think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. — Jasmine Sun/Twitter — 30-04-2026

• .@mcuban is not impressed with OpenAI's business: "They're shitting away money at scale," he told me. Full discussion live on Big Technology Podcast. — Alex Kantrowitz/Twitter — 29-04-2026

• Out of Tune: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Leads to Unpredictable Safety Drift — CDT — 30-04-2026

• How people ask Claude for personal guidance — Anthropic — 30-04-2026

• House Committees Probe Cursor Parent, Airbnb Over Chinese AI — Semafor — 29-04-2026

• The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path — Wired — 27-04-2026

• Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence — Odd Lots Podcast — 25-04-2026

• China's AI Model Companies Can Only Afford One Bet — Hello China Tech — 22-04-2026

• AI Data Centers can use up to 500,000 gallons of water a day. They will make our droughts catastrophically worse. As Governor, I will ban the construction of any AI Data Center in Florida. — James Fishback/Twitter — 21-04-2026

• Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby were on stage in SF today and here are the 9 best things they said: 1. "There is a 50% chance that OpenAI goes bankrupt in the next 18mos" -Mallaby — Deedy Das/Twitter — 20-04-2026

• She says ChatGPT is responsible for her son's death. CA lawmakers are listening — The Sacramento Bee — 20-04-2026

• Beijing Yizhuang ran its second humanoid robot half-marathon on Sunday. One year of progress in one set of numbers. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 19-04-2026

• New preliminary results: how people actually use ChatGPT. First conversation-level look at Global South usage. — Kiran Garimella/Twitter — 18-04-2026

• In our corrected figures, hyperscalers hold 71% of world AI compute — Epoch AI/Twitter — 16-04-2026

• Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia's moat persist? — Dwarkesh Podcast — 15-04-2026

• OpenAI investors question $852bn valuation as strategy shifts — Financial Times — 14-04-2026

• The 2026 AI Index Report — Stanford HAI — 13-04-2026

• We're monitoring the air and water around Meta's data center in Louisiana. Here's why. — WWNO — 13-04-2026

• US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company — The Guardian — 09-04-2026

• Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 07-04-2026

• Google's AI Overviews Face Trust Crisis as Accuracy Doubts Persist — The New York Times — 07-04-2026

• Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker — 06-04-2026

• OpenAI Buys Some Positive News — Wired — 02-04-2026

• 100 Hours Inside Kimi — Rui Ma/Twitter — 01-04-2026

• Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 01-03-2026

• OpenClaw May Be a Security Nightmare for OpenAI's Sam Altman — Bloomberg — 22-02-2026

• Inside OpenAI's Crisis Over GPT-4o's Emotional 'Soul' — The Wall Street Journal — 09-02-2026

• Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026

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