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US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over alleged intellectual property theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will scrutinise Chinese open-source AI for stolen technology, and could punish companies found to have copied American models.
The fight over Chinese open-source AI is really a fight over who profits from it
A powerful new Chinese AI model has Washington debating bans. But the real battle is about protecting billion-dollar investments, not national security.
China's free AI model is tearing Trump's tech advisors apart
A new Chinese chatbot called Kimi has exposed a bitter split inside the White House over how America should respond to cheap, powerful AI from China.
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 Edge Brings Robot Brains Down to Earth
A new, compact AI model lets robots and factory cameras think for themselves, without needing a data centre nearby.
China's Moonshot and Alibaba unveil giant AI models they say rival GPT-5 and Claude
Two of China's biggest AI players released models this weekend claiming to match the best American systems, with plans to make them free to download. The gap between US and Chinese AI may be closing faster than Washington expected.
A $400 Million Nonprofit Wants to Build the Public Internet of AI
Current AI is handing out grants, shipping offline devices, and fighting to keep AI from becoming a private club. Here is what it is building, who is paying for it, and why a farmer in rural India is the whole point.
China's Kimi AI model rattles Wall Street and reignites the open-source debate
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is competitive with the world's best AI models, and Washington can't agree on what to do about it.
A $400 Million Bet That Cheaper AI Chips Will Win
A startup called General Compute just borrowed $400 million to build a cloud service around a less-expensive type of AI chip. The deal may signal a shift away from the pricey hardware that dominates AI today.
China's Kimi K3 could match Anthropic's best model and it will be free to use
Moonshot AI's next release is set to be the largest open-weight model from China, and early reports suggest it can go toe-to-toe with Anthropic's most capable closed system.
This AI Router Cuts Costs by 2.6x by Learning From Its Own Mistakes
A new open-source system called ACRouter watches which AI model succeeds or fails on each task, remembers what it learned, and routes the next job smarter. In tests, it matched the performance of premium-only setups at less than half the price.
Reflection AI Signs $1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius
The open-model startup, valued at $8 billion, is stacking up GPU access at speed as demand for AI that nobody can switch off overnight keeps growing.
Open-source AI models from China now dominate developer downloads. Does the frontier still matter?
Chinese open-weight models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring. Developers are building with cheaper, customisable alternatives, and some big names think that shift is permanent.
Nous Research Is Raising $75 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation. Here Is What Its Hermes Agent Actually Does.
The startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent is closing a new funding round just three months after its last one. If you have never heard of Hermes, you are about to.
Microsoft's CEO warns companies are paying for AI twice, once in cash and once in secrets
Satya Nadella says every prompt, correction and workflow businesses feed into AI models is quietly training the companies they pay. He wants enterprises to take back control.
Half the Fortune 500 Now Builds on Open AI Models. Here Is What That Means for You
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open-source AI is growing fast, and the companies adopting it aren't just the tech giants you might expect.