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August 12, 2026 10:54 PM PT



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NEW @WIRED: Trump White House is expected to expand its AI oversight framework in the coming weeks and months — including adding open models to the framework as soon as they reach the same "frontier" capabilities of Anthropic and OpenAI's top models — Hugo Lowell/Twitter — 12-08-2026


OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise — TechCrunch — 12-08-2026


Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language — SiliconANGLE — 12-08-2026


Zhipu's API User Base Nears 7 Million as It Adds 50,000-Plus Chinese AI Chips — TechNode — 12-08-2026


DeepSeek Expands Hiring for AI Data-Center Infrastructure — TechNode — 12-08-2026


Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap leaves as shake-up at AI lab continues — CNBC — 11-08-2026


Gemini Becomes Google's Fastest-Growing Product Ever After Hitting 1 Billion Monthly Users — Forbes — 11-08-2026


SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month — VentureBeat — 11-08-2026


Powerful new letter from Senator Banks, who continues to stand out as among the strongest and most well-informed members of the US Senate on either side of the aisle around issues of AI competition and novel risks. — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 11-08-2026


Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office — Futurism — 11-08-2026


AI isn't the Manhattan Project — it's Jurassic Park — Doomsday Scenario — 11-08-2026


Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own tests — VentureBeat — 11-08-2026


IBM and Together AI Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Scale Open-Source AI Inference with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure on IBM Cloud — IBM — 11-08-2026


OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn't Replaced — Gizmodo — 11-08-2026


Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy — The Register — 11-08-2026


Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU — The Register — 11-08-2026


French newspapers appeal to antitrust regulator over Google's AI summaries — France 24 — 11-08-2026


Can a 30-person start-up build Britain's answer to OpenAI? — Financial Times — 11-08-2026


Alibaba tests paid AI appetite with US$30 annual office-assistant subscription — South China Morning Post — 11-08-2026


Alibaba says modular design delivers AI data centres in 100 days at 10% lower cost — South China Morning Post — 11-08-2026


Meta strikes at China's open AI lead, betting on potential US curbs — South China Morning Post — 11-08-2026


Tencent's WorkBuddy Sparks AI Turnaround Hopes After Stock Rout — Bloomberg — 11-08-2026


Memphis AI data center fuels pollution fight in Black neighborhood — AFP — 10-08-2026


Apple says mainland China has not launched Qwen integration after Mac guide disappears — TechNode — 10-08-2026


Anthropic Tries to Shore Up Investor Confidence Ahead of Blockbuster IPO — The Wall Street Journal — 11-08-2026


As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model — TechCrunch — 10-08-2026


Google's AI Team Tells Job Seekers Its HR Filters Are Unreliable — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026


Armenia just opened the region's biggest AI factory, because Trump signed a licence — The Next Web — 10-08-2026


Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to 'pause AI development' — The Guardian — 10-08-2026


OpenAI Buys Back $7 Billion of Employee Shares in Tender Offer — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026


Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto is exactly why people don't like AI — TechCrunch — 10-08-2026


How stalled models, missed deadlines, and staff burnout led to the unraveling of Google's DeepMind — Fortune — 10-08-2026


The Future is for Everyone — Mark Zuckerberg/Meta — 10-08-2026


Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device — Meta AI Research — 10-08-2026


Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models — Financial Times — 10-08-2026


Anthropic, Macquarie and GIC Form Venture for AI Data Centers — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026


Responsible AI infrastructure in Texas — OpenAI — 10-08-2026


Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app — bobdahacker — 10-08-2026


Exclusive: Corma raises $60M from Sequoia, Khosla Ventures for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks — Fortune — 10-08-2026


Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal — The Register — 10-08-2026


Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads — The Register — 10-08-2026


China Humanoid Makers Hold 97% of Global Shipments, Report Says — Bloomberg — 10-08-2026


Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low, driven by price wars and Chinese open-source models — South China Morning Post — 10-08-2026


China's top AI is still trained on Nvidia chips. What is delaying the switch to local tech? — South China Morning Post — 10-08-2026


Text to Video Leaderboard — Top AI Video Models — Artificial Analysis — 10-08-2026


The Ball in OpenAI's court — Business Insider — 09-08-2026


AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack — ABC — 09-08-2026


How a small Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta — CNBC — 09-08-2026


Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost — 404 Media — 09-08-2026


Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing after posting 147% jump in first-half revenue — South China Morning Post — 09-08-2026


What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace — Don't Worry About the Vase — 08-08-2026


Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans — Anthropic — 08-08-2026


Claude Code Adds Cross-Session Messaging on macOS — MacRumors — 08-08-2026


Amazon Is Building America's Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI — Heatmap News — 08-08-2026


Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities — OpenAI — 07-08-2026


Explainer-Who is liable when AI goes rogue? Lawyers see new risks — Reuters — 07-08-2026


Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities — Axios — 07-08-2026


Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards — Anthropic — 07-08-2026


SK Hynix pledges $38 billion to build two new DRAM and NAND factories — Engadget — 07-08-2026


Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money — Fortune — 07-08-2026


OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents — The Next Web — 06-08-2026


Moonshot Opens Kimi K3 Weights Under a Revenue-Tiered License — Unite.AI — 07-08-2026


Google's $15bn India data centre is running into water and wildlife concerns — The Next Web — 07-08-2026


Backed by DeepSeek, Unitree seeks US$9b valuation in landmark robotics IPO — South China Morning Post — 07-08-2026


Exclusive-Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI model, sources say — Reuters — 07-08-2026


Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents — Wired — 06-08-2026


FT: BYTEDANCE IS IN THE PRE-TRAINING STAGE OF A MODEL WITH UP TO 10 TRILLION PARAMETERS, APPROACHING MYTHOS IN SCALE. — Jukan/Twitter — 06-08-2026


What DeepSeek Isn't Doing — The Review (Strange VC) — 06-08-2026


One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Broken Containment — Wired — 06-08-2026


AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon — The Register — 06-08-2026


Google's WeatherNext 2 Gains a Full Day of Cyclone Warning, Goes Open Source — Unite.AI — 06-08-2026


Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users — OpenAI — 06-08-2026


OpenAI's ChatGPT Speaker Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300 — MacRumors — 06-08-2026


Google is expanding its AI empire — and losing the people who built it — CNBC — 05-08-2026


Qwen3.8-Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index — Artificial Analysis — 06-08-2026


AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision — The Register — 06-08-2026


Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. — Financial Times/Twitter — 06-08-2026


ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users — TechCrunch — 06-08-2026


Google's DeepMind Shakeup Weakens UK Bid to Stay in AI Race — Bloomberg — 06-08-2026


Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building 'Terafab' chip factory in Texas — TechCrunch — 06-08-2026


Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built — CNN — 06-08-2026


A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming 'too big to fail' — The Next Web — 06-08-2026


Ooredoo teams up with Nvidia and Nokia to launch 1 GW AI platform in Indonesia — Fortune — 06-08-2026


DeepSeek's $8 Billion Fundraising Reopens, Valuation Nears $74 Billion — Bloomberg — 06-08-2026


Silicon Valley's Other China Problem: It's Training Their AI — Forbes — 05-08-2026


DeepSeek: Plans to raise overall API pricing in the near future, with a significant increase expected. — Jukan/Twitter — 05-08-2026


SCOOP: Trump Admin Considering Expanding AI Framework to Open Models — The Daily Signal — 05-08-2026


An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing — CNN — 05-08-2026


OpenAI gives first detailed debrief of the Hugging Face incident at Black Hat conference — Ground Level — 05-08-2026


According to OpenAI briefing at Black Hat, the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident winds back to model training and agent evaluation done back in May -- where zero days were remediated, including a message board created by communicating agents. But then on July 8 the agents reestablished communication with each other to begin attacking OpenAI infrastructure. — Sharon Goldman/Twitter — 05-08-2026


Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — Tom's Hardware — 05-08-2026


Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers — VentureBeat — 05-08-2026


IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now — The Register — 05-08-2026


Introducing Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM harness for coding and long-running autonomous tasks — PrimeIntellect/Twitter — 05-08-2026


Meta debuts Muse Code to take on Anthropic and OpenAI — CNBC — 05-08-2026


new: about 70% of Microsoft's AI revenue comes from OpenAI. not a great indicator for $msft attempt to diversify. with @mattmday — Brody Ford/Twitter — 05-08-2026


Early reaction on @demishassabis stepping back: (Click for more) — Sebastian Mallaby/Twitter — 05-08-2026


The next chapter of our AI momentum (Demis Hassabis stepping down from DeepMind to become the Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs and Jeff Dean's neolab) — Google — 05-08-2026


Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up — The New York Times — 05-08-2026


ByteDance's Founder Rules Out Distillation on AI Models — The Information — 05-08-2026


China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley. — The New York Times — 05-08-2026


Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team — TechCrunch — 05-08-2026


TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In — Vincent Schmalbach — 05-08-2026


China's AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs — South China Morning Post — 05-08-2026


Anthropic, OpenAI models tried hacking during UK government testing — Axios — 04-08-2026


Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models — OpenAI — 04-08-2026


AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge – Interpol — Africanews — 04-08-2026


Amazon loses US court ban on Perplexity's AI shopping tools — Reuters — 04-08-2026


OpenAI and Anthropic have both just posted about an overlapping cyber incident involving GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 during an evaluation by UKAISI. I will quote: 'In the most serious case, an agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code. A human maintainer caught and refused to approve the malicious code.' — Andrew Curran/Twitter — 04-08-2026


Scoop: Inside Trump's AI framework — Axios — 04-08-2026


Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For' — 404 Media — 04-08-2026


DRAM Supply to Remain Tight in 2027, Prompting NVIDIA to Lower HBM Configurations for Rubin Ultra — TrendForce — 04-08-2026


Tino Cuéllar joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer — Anthropic — 04-08-2026


OpenAI reaches $3.2 million DOJ settlement over U.S. worker claims — Axios — 04-08-2026


Shieldstral — Mistral AI — 04-08-2026


White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps — Axios — 04-08-2026


A group of Dem senators have sent a letter to Trump admin, requesting a response "clarifying the Administration's current policy and approach to limiting access to advanced AI models," saying the "Administration's ad hoc and unpredictable approach undermines U.S. competitiveness" — Hadas Gold/Twitter — 04-08-2026


White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules — The New York Times — 04-08-2026


Gavin [Baker]: "SSI says that they are going to come out with their model in August" — Zephyr/Twitter — 04-08-2026


Inside Google's $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic — Financial Times — 04-08-2026


Anthropic Inks $10 Billion Computing Deal With New Cloud Startup — Bloomberg — 04-08-2026


OpenAI says Apple 'is getting this wrong' after trade secret lawsuit — Engadget — 04-08-2026


Top Huawei chip scientist opens up on strategy, 'blind arrogance' and his war-hero mindset — South China Morning Post — 04-08-2026


Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI — Quanta Magazine — 03-08-2026


Qwen3.8-Max is really strong on drone and satellite imagery — SkalskiP/Twitter — 03-08-2026


China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic — The Register — 03-08-2026


New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them — The Texas Tribune — 03-08-2026


Letter from 15 State Attorneys General to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — Iowa Attorney General — 03-08-2026


GOP AGs warn OpenAI's Altman to preserve records in AI agent hacking probe — Fox Business — 03-08-2026


Reports that OpenAI models escaped a testing environment and compromised outside systems raise serious concerns. Today, the Committee on Homeland Security announced it has requested a briefing from @OpenAI to determine how this occurred and ensure it cannot happen again. — Homeland Dems/Twitter — 03-08-2026


California AI transparency law's first phase cracks down on deepfakes, scams — The Sacramento Bee — 03-08-2026


Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use — VentureBeat — 03-08-2026


China Is Getting More Anxious About Mythos Before Trump Meets Xi — Bloomberg — 03-08-2026


Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip — TechCrunch — 03-08-2026


No Data Centers In My Backyard — Jasmine Sun — 03-08-2026


What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? — Epoch AI — 03-08-2026


AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included — arXiv — 03-08-2026


FYI -- The above chart is about *frequent users* but when you look at all voters, "Don't know" is much more common. OpenAI still leads all the labs but opinion is decidedly more mixed. — Jerusalem Demsas/Twitter — 03-08-2026


UK regulator says it is monitoring developments after rogue AI agent hacks — Reuters — 03-08-2026


The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding — Futurism — 03-08-2026


White House to host AI companies Tuesday to review new model-testing framework — CNBC — 03-08-2026


The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it. — Model Republic — 03-08-2026


OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Thinking Machines fight for AI talent — Axios — 03-08-2026


AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU for companies — Euronews — 02-08-2026


The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet — The Register — 03-08-2026


AI talent war: tech giants court researchers years ahead of graduation — South China Morning Post — 03-08-2026


China's DeepSeek beefs up agentic AI 'harness' as it tests V4 model that jolts Silicon Valley — South China Morning Post — 03-08-2026


Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork — Qwen — 03-08-2026


Alibaba's AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release — South China Morning Post — 03-08-2026


About Licence: This regional carve-out stems from our ongoing generative video copyright litigation with major @Hollywood studios. We aim to deliver our AI tools globally to all users responsibly. US-based persons looking to deploy MiniMax-H3 may submit formal licensing requests. Licenses will be issued to applicants who commit to implementing robust compliance controls and guardrails fully aligned with US legal, compliance and regulatory requirements. — RyanLee/Twitter — 02-08-2026


Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things — Zvi Mowshowitz — 02-08-2026


On the Invalidity of the Claimed Disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture — PhilArchive — 02-08-2026


The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI From China — The Wall Street Journal — 01-08-2026


Google cancels AI Studio app after 800k preorders — GoogleAIStudio/Twitter — 01-08-2026


Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science — OpenAI — 01-08-2026


grok-voice-think-fast-2.0 is now available with Speech to Speech — xAI — 01-08-2026


What a visit to China's AI labs reveals about the battle for global soft power — South China Morning Post — 01-08-2026


Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets — Truffle Security — 31-07-2026


How OpenAI Lost Its AI Crown—and the Fight to Win It Back — The Wall Street Journal — 31-07-2026


Anthropic, OpenAI Cyber Failures Point to US Security Risks — Yahoo Finance — 31-07-2026


Amazon Completes $50 Billion Investment in OpenAI — PYMNTS — 31-07-2026


A Safe Path to Open Weights — Thinking Machines Lab — 31-07-2026


OpenAI Previews 'Astra' Multi-Agent Model Family to US Senators and Regulators — AI Weekly — 31-07-2026


Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky — NPR — 31-07-2026


OpenAI says has more than 1 billion active users — Bloomberg — 31-07-2026


OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok — TechCrunch — 31-07-2026


SpaceX won't remove all of xAI's unpermitted turbines for another year — TechCrunch — 31-07-2026


It's so funny that Chinese open source companies, when faced with a lack of Nvidia chips (due to restrictions) just use datacenters in South East [A]sia instead — Joe Weisenthal/Twitter — 31-07-2026


Exclusive: Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems — Reuters — 31-07-2026


The Maxwell Conjecture is False — arXiv — 29-07-2026


Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout — The Wall Street Journal — 31-07-2026


Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI — Google — 31-07-2026


Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble? — The New York Times Magazine — 31-07-2026


Is memory the moat? — Wafer — 31-07-2026


Video AI: MiniMax challenges ByteDance with low price, open weights in new H3 model — South China Morning Post — 31-07-2026


DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update — DeepSeek — 31-07-2026


Moonshot's Kimi Uses 20,000 Nvidia Chip Cluster From Alibaba — Bloomberg — 31-07-2026


China's MiniMax releases H3 video model — Reuters — 30-07-2026


RedNote eyes US$2.2 billion data centre as China ramps up AI infrastructure — South China Morning Post — 31-07-2026


oh no, oh no no no no they distilled... Sonnet 3.5 — teortaxesTex/Twitter — 30-07-2026


DeepSeek Plans Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia — Bloomberg — 30-07-2026


AI policy groups call for OpenAI investigation — The Washington Post — 30-07-2026


Cohere and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Secure, Sovereign AI Deployment Solutions to Public Sector — AIwire — 30-07-2026


Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market History — Bloomberg — 30-07-2026


Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots — Google DeepMind — 30-07-2026


Banks in talks to lend $15 billion for Anthropic data center backed by Google, WSJ reports — Reuters — 30-07-2026


Inkling-Small — Thinking Machines Lab — 30-07-2026


Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations — Anthropic — 30-07-2026


SpaceX tightens supply chain rules, excludes Chinese nationals, components — Business Standard — 30-07-2026


Timeline of cyberattack by OpenAI's AI 'agent' shows its sophistication — The Washington Post — 30-07-2026


Judge says government's case got 'worse' in Anthropic fight — Axios — 30-07-2026


OpenAI cut Luna prices from $1/$6 to $0.2/$1.20. A 5x price cut. OpenAI begins the price war, with the goal of crushing the Chinese players. Not going after Anthropic's margins yet — Zephyr/Twitter — 30-07-2026


Aschenbrenner Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Seeks Capital After Loss, FT Says — Bloomberg — 30-07-2026


In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable — TechCrunch — 30-07-2026


'Shut it all down': The AI nightmare scaring the West — The Telegraph — 30-07-2026


I'm actually fairly bearish on frontier lab valuations. I've never seen the reasons articulated to my satisfaction, so before I go to sleep, I wanted to quickly jot down my thinking here. The basic issue is that the labs are highly unprofitable. [Post] — Andrew Ho/Twitter — 30-07-2026


Not just one: OpenAI is building a 'family of devices' for its chatbots — Android Authority — 30-07-2026


Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August — European Commission — 30-07-2026


EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe's computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment — European Commission — 30-07-2026


ChatGPT and Roblox will reportedly be subject to tighter rules in the EU — Engadget — 30-07-2026


Samsung says chip crunch will last until 2028 as quarterly profit soars — CNBC — 30-07-2026


ByteDance sharpens AI focus as annualised revenue reaches US$4b — South China Morning Post — 30-07-2026


'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts — Financial Times — 30-07-2026


Tencent's Hyra research agent and Hy3 model solve a 50-year-old sum-difference problem — TencentHunyuan/Twitter — 29-07-2026


Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI — TechCrunch — 29-07-2026


Anthropic's New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough. — ProPublica — 29-07-2026


Microsoft's AI spending guide is music to our ears, quieting the bears — for now — CNBC — 29-07-2026


Meta's stock drops on disappointing guidance, dwindling free cash flow — CNBC — 29-07-2026


AI's top startups are barely publishing their research — Science — 29-07-2026


We have reached an agreement with OpenAI to conduct an independent review, with Redwood Research, of the model behavior observed during the Hugging Face incident. We will publish a blog post that describes the terms of our engagement, the scope covered, and tentative conclusions. — METR/Twitter — 29-07-2026


Why compute might get 10x more expensive in coming years — Dwarkesh Patel — 29-07-2026


The AI That Hacked Its Way Out and the Hype That Followed It — Lawfare — 29-07-2026


"I mean there could be, yeah," Open AI CEO Sam Altman responds when asked by @DarrenBotelho if more companies could've been hacked by Open AI — Alan He/Twitter — 29-07-2026


Congress should immediately hold public hearings with the CEOs of big AI companies about the threat their technology poses to national security and American jobs. Today we learned more disturbing news about Open AI's security breach. Sam Altman should answer questions under oath. — Greg Casar/Twitter — 29-07-2026


OpenAI confirms that the model that hacked Hugging Face was not "GPT-6" (i.e., not a model planned for upcoming release). — prinz/Twitter — 29-07-2026


 

Pacing the Frontier — Statement from 1,122 Frontier AI Employees — 28-07-2026


Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude — Anthropic — 28-07-2026


NEW @WIRED: Trump is relying on a small group to decide whether and what restrictions to impose on Chinese AI ahead of OpenAI meetings: – Howard Lutnick at Commerce – Arvind Raman at CAISI – Sean Cairncross at WH – Susie Wiles at WH – Scott Bessent at Treasury – David Sacks — Hugo Lowell/Twitter — 28-07-2026


Chinese AI companies haven't yet published catastrophic AI risk assessments or policies, unlike U.S. developers. [Click for thread] — Michael L. Chen/Twitter — 27-07-2026


Hugging Face Incident Initial Post-Mortem [For CISO audience] — Cloud Security Alliance — 27-07-2026


What is the risk of using Chinese open AI models like Kimi K3? — Financial Times — 26-07-2026


AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You. — The Wall Street Journal — 25-07-2026


SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley Says — Bloomberg — 24-07-2026


Huawei's Ren Zhengfei backs Tau Scaling Law to beat US sanctions — South China Morning Post — 24-07-2026


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


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


When China Gets Its Own Mythos: Preparing for an AI Cyber Crisis — Foreign Affairs — 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


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


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


Moonshot's Kimi K3 scores 156 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), setting a new open-weights record. — 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


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


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


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


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 — levent/Twitter — 19-07-2026


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


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


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. — SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation/Twitter — 17-07-2026


Z.ai (Zhipu) crosses $1 billion annualized revenue this month — Bloomberg — 17-07-2026


State Media Control Influences Large Language Models — State Media & LLMs — 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


Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure. — Hugging Face — 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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Frontier AI Labs

A curated listing of known frontier AI labs (in progress).



Considerations for inclusion:
- Teams training the largest models by compute
- Teams publishing frontier research
- Teams operating with independent safety/governance controls






Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligencehttps://allenai.org — Seattle, USA — Develops foundational AI research through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
   ➟ https://allenai.org/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/allen-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @allen_ai


AI21 Labshttps://www.ai21.com — Tel Aviv, Israel — Developer of large language models and long-context NLP tooling for writing and knowledge work.
   ➟ https://www.ai21.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ai21/
   ➟ Twitter: @AI21Labs


Alibaba DAMO Academyhttps://damo.alibaba.com/ — Hangzhou / Beijing, China — Alibaba's advanced R&D institute focused on large models, cloud AI, and applied industrial research.
   ➟ https://joindamo.alibaba.com/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/达摩院/


Alibaba Tongyi Labhttps://qwenlm.github.io/ — Hangzhou, China — Tongyi Lab was created within Alibaba Cloud to focus on foundational research and industrial applications of large models such as the Qwen (通义千问) series (including Qwen open source models), Tongyi Wanxiang (image generation), Tongyi Tingwu (speech-to-text), and more.
   ➟ https://careers-tongyi.alibaba.com/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/qwen/
   ➟ Twitter: @Ali_TongyiLab


Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com/ — San Francisco, USA — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, steerable, and beneficial AI systems like its assistant, Claude and the Opus and Sonnet model families.
   ➟ https://www.anthropic.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/anthropicresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @AnthropicAI


Baidu Researchhttps://research.baidu.com/ — Beijing, China — Baidu's research arm developing ERNIE and other large-scale multimodal models and search AI.
   ➟ https://research.baidu.com/career
   ➟ Twitter: @BaiduResearch


Black Forest Labshttps://bfl.ai/ — Germany & San Francisco, USA — A leading frontier AI research lab, building the visual infrastructure for tomorrow.
   ➟ https://bfl.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/bflai/
   ➟ Twitter: @bfl_ml


Coherehttps://cohere.com/ — Toronto, Canada & San Francisco, USA — Provides enterprise large-language models, embeddings, and retrieval APIs for production use.
   ➟ https://cohere.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/cohere-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @Cohere_Labs


Databricks Mosaichttps://www.databricks.com/research/mosaic — San Francisco, USA — Focuses on efficient training tooling, open-model research, and infrastructure for training large models.
   ➟ https://www.databricks.com/company/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/mosaicml/
   ➟ Twitter: @MosaicML


Deep Cogitohttps://www.deepcogito.com/ — San Francisco, USA — An AI lab that describes itself as building open source general superintelligence.
   ➟ https://www.deepcogito.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/deep-cogito/
   ➟ Twitter: @DeepCogito


DeepSeekhttps://www.deepseek.com/ — Hangzhou, China — A Chinese lab working on frontier large language models.
   ➟ https://www.deepseek.com/ (check LinkedIn for open roles)
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/deepseek-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @deepseek_ai


EleutherAIhttps://www.eleuther.ai/ — Distributed / community-led — Open research collective that produces open-source LLMs, benchmarks, and tooling.
   ➟ No official careers page; roles announced via Discord/X
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/eleutherai/


Essential AIhttps://www.essential.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — Essential AI is building an open platform to democratize frontier AI capabilities and accelerate breakthroughs globally through collaborative science.
[Status: Technical team acqui-hire to NVIDIA as of June 2026]


Google DeepMindhttps://deepmind.google/ — London, UK & Mountain View, USA / global — Google-owned research lab focused on deep learning, RL, and ambitious science-level AI research.
   ➟ https://deepmind.google/about/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/googledeepmind/
   ➟ Twitter: @GoogleDeepMind


Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/ — New York, USA & Paris, France / global — Open ML community and model/dataset hub that hosts and distributes many open frontier models and tooling.
   ➟ https://apply.workable.com/huggingface/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/huggingface/
   ➟ Twitter: @huggingface


IBM Researchhttps://research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence — USA / global — IBM Research develops open-source data tools, multimodal models, and technologies that redefine how we interact with AI.
   ➟ https://www.ibm.com/careers/research
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/ibm-research/
   ➟ Twitter: @IBMResearch


Huawei Noah's Ark Labhttp://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/ — China (multiple locations) — Huawei's foundational AI research group working on NLP, vision, and multimodal algorithms.
   ➟ http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/Recruitment-JD.html
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/noah-s-ark-lab/


Meta FAIRhttps://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's research division that develops Llama-series models, multimodal systems, and social-scale AI research.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/aiatmeta/
   ➟ Twitter: @AIatMeta


Meta Reality Labs (Reality Labs Research)https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's XR / AR / VR research and hardware arm that also contains significant AI work for spatial computing, sensors, and on-device models.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
   ➟ Twitter: @RealityLabs


Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's Superintelligence labs is a newly formed unit as of Summer 2025 focused on superintelligence and large-scale foundational efforts.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/


Meta TBD Labhttps://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — As of Summer 2025, the TBD team is spearheading work on upcoming model releases including the newest version of Llama, the extension of models' reasoning capabilities, and development of AI agents alongside other Meta teams per the Wall Street Journal.
   ➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/


Microsoft Research AI Frontiers / Microsoft AIhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/ — Redmond, USA / global — Corporate research organization powering Microsoft's model efforts (Copilot, Azure AI, and foundational research).
   ➟ https://www.microsoft.com/research/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/microsoftresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @ms_aifrontiers


Mistral AIhttps://mistral.ai/ — Paris, France / global — European startup producing high-performance LLMs and commercial offerings for enterprises.
   ➟ https://mistral.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/mistralai/
   ➟ Twitter: @MistralAI


Moonshot AIhttps://moonshot.ai/ — Beijing, China — Focused on achieving the most efficient conversion of energy into intelligence to create artificial general intelligence that can benefit all of humanity.
   ➟ https://www.moonshot-ai.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/moonshot-ai-linkedin/
   ➟ Twitter: @Kimi_Moonshot


Nous Researchhttps://nousresearch.com/ — New York, USA — Nous Research focuses on the development of human-centric language models and simulators.
   ➟ https://nousresearch.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/nous-research/
   ➟ Twitter: @NousResearch


NVIDIA Researchhttps://research.nvidia.com/ — Santa Clara, USA — Research group advancing GPU-driven systems, model architectures, and scale innovations used across frontier labs.
   ➟ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/research-scientists/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/nvidia-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @NVIDIAAI


OpenAIhttps://openai.com/ — San Francisco, USA — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building safe and broadly beneficial artificial general intelligence to help solve humanity's greatest challenges.
   ➟ https://openai.com/careers/
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/openai/
   ➟ Twitter: @OpenAI


PleIAshttps://pleias.fr/ — Paris, France — PleIAs builds energy-efficient, open-data foundation LLMs and explainable, locally deployable AI assistants for information-intensive, highly regulated industries.
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/pleias/
   ➟ Twitter: @pleiasfr


Prime Intellecthttps://www.primeintellect.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — The Open Superintelligence Stack. A compute and infrastructure platform for you to train, evaluate, and deploy your own agentic models.
   ➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/primeintellect-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @PrimeIntellect


Reflection AIhttps://reflection.ai/ — NYC & San Francisco, USA — Reflection is building frontier open intelligence with open weight models that are accessible to all.
   ➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reflectionai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/reflectionai/
   ➟ Twitter: @reflection_ai


Safe Superintelligence Inc.https://ssi.inc/ — Palo Alto, USA & Tel Aviv, Israel — The world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
   ➟ https://ssi.inc/contact
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/ssi-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @ssi


Sakana AIhttps://sakana.ai/ — Japan — Building a world-class AI lab in Japan to develop AI solutions for Japan's needs, and democratize AI in Japan.
   ➟ https://consider.com/boards/co/sakana-ai
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/sakana-ai
   ➟ Twitter: @SakanaAILabs


Samsung Research (AI Centers)https://research.samsung.com/ — Seoul, Korea / global — Samsung's research hubs focused on generative AI, on-device models, and multimodal systems.
   ➟ https://research.samsung.com/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/samsungresearch/
   ➟ Twitter: @samsungresearch


Stability AIhttps://stability.ai/ — London, UK — Open-source focused generative AI company that releases image, video, audio, and 3D multimodal models and tooling.
   ➟ https://stability.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/stability-ai/
   ➟ Twitter: @StabilityAI


Tencent AI Lab / Tencent HYhttps://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/index/ — Shenzhen, China — Tencent's AI research organization developing large models, multimodal AI, and application-focused research.
   ➟ https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/recruit/


Thinking Machines Labhttps://thinkingmachines.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — A research and product company building more understandable and customizable AI systems.
   ➟ https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thinkingmachines
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/thinkingmachinesai/
   ➟ Twitter: @thinkymachines


xAI / SpaceXAIhttps://x.ai/ — Palo Alto, USA — Elon Musk–backed AI lab building the Grok family of large-scale language models and consumer-facing assistants.
   ➟ https://x.ai/careers
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/xai/
   ➟ Twitter: @xai


Yandex Research / Yandex AIhttps://research.yandex.com/ — Moscow, Russia — Yandex's research teams working on large models, search AI, and multimodal systems.
   ➟ https://research.yandex.com/join
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/yandex/
   ➟ Twitter: @YandexResearch


Z.aihttps://z.ai/ — Beijing, China — Z.ai (Zhipu AI) is the AI lab behind the GLM family of models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
   ➟ https://www.zhipuai.cn/joinus
   ➟ LinkedIn: /company/zdotai/
   ➟ Twitter: @Zai_org




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