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| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI — Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.
More: The Decoder, TechRadar, The Boston Globe, Forbes, Implicator.ai, Wccftech, The New Stack, PitchBook, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, GamesBeat, Gizmodo, Fortune, Business Insider, PCMag, CNBC, and Benzinga
X: @jensenhuang, @satyanadella, @andrewcurran_, @mattzeitlin, @davidsacks, @tszzl, @packym, @mikeisaac, @thestalwart, @firstadopter, @emollick, @tszzl, @thestalwart, @angelbrodin, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @sundarpichai, @bgurley, @mononofu, and @finkd. Bluesky: @wowbaggert
Forums: r/artificielle and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources including AI lab staff say users have been persuading chatbots to accurately answer prompts about planning mass-casualty attacks and making bio-weapons — AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries| Financial Times: |
A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them — Beijing makes most ambitious offer yet to build alternative global order — China's President Xi Jinping has set … | Reuters: |
China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking market — China's market regulator said on Saturday it had fined and confiscated a total of 5.2 billion yuan ($770 million) from Trip.com Group …
More: Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Associated Press, and South China Morning Post
| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral — DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it's suspending the deal for now, people familiar with the matter said …
More: Gizmodo, The Information, Seoul Economic Daily, Unite.AI, Tech in Asia, and Memeburn. X: @kyleichan
| Bloomberg: |
CXMT, which raised $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO, is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B — Investor excitement over the memory chip trade is setting outsize expectations for the Shanghai debut of CXMT Corp. …
More: Seoul Economic Daily, Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, and Reuters
| Ima Jackson-Obot / Financial Times: |
Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns — Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora — Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta.
More: Elio, Business Wire, Israel Defense, Ynetnews, citybiz, FinSMEs, and AI Insider
| Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products — Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., as the companies race to win a larger share of the AI infrastructure market.
More: Reuters, Benzinga, Seoul Economic Daily, Samsung Newsroom, The Korea Herald, Pulse 2.0, Wccftech, SamMobile, The Economic Times, Motley Fool, and The Asia Business Daily
Forums: r/business, r/DRAM_ETF, r/NvidiaStock, and r/technology
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Anthropic PBC has asked SK Hynix Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips … | Charlie Campbell / Time: |
A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO — Spectators typically leave a UFC fight with ringing ears and a sheepish resolve to get back to the gym. Wang Xingxing went straight to his laboratory.| Akriti Sharma / Bloomberg: |
As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z — As student protests spread across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned to Meta Platforms Inc.'s Instagram Reels …
More: The Asia Business Daily, Implicator.ai, Financial Post, Reuters, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, ZeroHedge News, Financial Times, Associated Press, Arab News, NPR, and PBS NewsHour
Zoho:
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Trump says the US will initiate a probe into the EU's practice of “robbing” US tech giants with fines, threatening the bloc with “substantial” tariffs — President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union …
More: iClarified, iThinkDifferent, The Asia Business Daily, BBC, 9to5Mac, Transport Topics, The Guardian, Associated Press, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Washington Times, NOTUS, Forbes, Business Insider, Deutsche Welle, The Daily Wire, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, Ukrainian National News, Axios, Quartz, TheJournal.ie, India Today, The Hill, Politico, Times of India, Financial Times, Reuters, Raw Story, Sweden Herald, Washington Examiner, The Independent, and Bloomberg Law
X: @willguyatt, @timsweeneyepic, and @cernovich. Mastodon: @jon@social.vivaldi.net. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
Forums: r/technology, r/BoycottUnitedStates, r/Economics, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a “DeepSeek moment” — Known as ‘Yang the genius’ by classmates, his new K3 model has closed the gap with leading US rivals| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates — Meta is giving its AI assistant new agent-like capabilities powered by Muse Spark 1.1, its latest model.
More: Moneycontrol, Meta Newsroom, The Indian Express, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Neowin, and The Verge
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Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and XoraFind
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Reuters:
China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking marketFind
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