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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.
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| 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.| 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 … | 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| 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 … | 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
| Bloomberg: |
CXMT is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B after raising $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO — Investor excitement over the memory chip trade is setting outsize expectations for the Shanghai debut of CXMT Corp. …
More: Financial Times
| 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
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| 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| 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 …
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| 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, AI Insider, citybiz, and FinSMEs
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has pitched Trump on using Chinese memory chips in its products sold outside the US; Micron warned such a plan could destroy the US chip industry — Two of the president's priorities—cutting prices for U.S. consumers and increasing domestic semiconductor output—come into conflict
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