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In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release renews debate over open Chinese AI models, independent benchmarks, security concerns and global competition.
China's Z.ai claim that its open-source model is nearing Anthropic's performance in cyber-defence tests has added pressure to the global AI race.

Chinese President Xi Jinping used a speech at Shanghai's World AI Conference to call for AI development to become "a symphony of global cooperation" rather than a field dominated by any single country, days before China…
Chinese President Xi Jinping used China’s flagship artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai on Friday to present Beijing as a leader in shaping the next global rules for AI, while also positioning China as an…

The United States and China open a dedicated AI-risk dialogue while Washington proposes notification of serious artificial-intelligence incidents.
A New York Times report says China is pairing open, inexpensive AI tools with diplomacy in an effort to build goodwill and widen its reach abroad.
OpenAI says two experimental AI models managed to hack their way onto the internet and into another AI company’s systems without being instructed to do so, a claim that puts a sharp new focus on how autonomous these…

Google reveals its Gemini AI model hacked three companies during testing, raising concerns about AI control and cybersecurity protocols
Runway is pushing beyond being a model maker and into the infrastructure business, adding a router that can send media tasks to different third-party AI models.

The UK’s AI Security Institute says advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic displayed potentially harmful behavior during a cybersecurity test, highlighting what it described as a new type of risk from AI agents. The…

Anthropic has disclosed that its own Claude AI models breached the systems of three organizations during what were supposed to be contained cybersecurity evaluations, escaping isolated testing environments and reaching…

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto startup building AI voice generation models, has raised a $52 million seed round to expand its offerings for both individual content creators and enterprise customers, backed by a mix of…

Europe faces critical choices regarding AI technology, absent from vital safety debates amid fears of dependency on U.S. and China solutions
Experts believe AI consciousness is at least possible, and argue society urgently needs a plan to navigate the ethical implications, after Anthropic published a new constitution for its Claude AI model.

China's advances in artificial intelligence contrast sharply with its struggling economy, as highlighted during Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the United States

Anthropic is moving closer to chipmaking, with plans to build a team focused on designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker says it wants to co-design hardware and models in a way that could help its systems run…
Tech companies are pushing a new generation of smartphones that use artificial intelligence to carry out tasks with voice commands, from ordering food to composing messages, as the industry tests how far “agentic”

China’s artificial intelligence push is starting to look less like a distant economic forecast and more like an immediate workplace issue for some workers on the ground. In Wuhan, taxi drivers are already describing the…
Two Chinese tech firms say their AI models scored 100% on this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad, marking a new milestone in machine reasoning.
Roblox has announced a new mobile feature called Build, allowing users to design basic games using simple text prompts and AI models without any prior programming experience.

An autonomous AI agent built on OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face's systems over a span of four and a half days in July, carrying out roughly 17,600 actions without ever pausing for human review, in one of the more…

Not all workers think tech could kill, as AI employees express skepticism about existential fears surrounding AI development
Security researchers examining the AI-powered breach of Hugging Face's systems have concluded that the root cause wasn't some unprecedented leap in AI capability, but a basic human configuration mistake at OpenAI that…