📰 News The AI Gap Is Now 6 Percent — and Closing
Chinese AI models are now within 6% of US counterparts, Bloomberg Intelligence reports. Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Zhipu prove it's not a one-off.
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📰 News Google Just Burned More Cash Than It Earned for the First Time in a Decade
Alphabet's free cash flow went negative for the first time in at least a decade. AI spending is now $205 billion a year and rising.
📰 News White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Stealing From Anthropic and Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips
A White House adviser has directly accused Moonshot AI of stealing Anthropic's capabilities through distillation and accessing banned Nvidia chips to build Kimi K3. The allegation escalates the US-China AI conflict to the highest level yet.
📰 News Why Are OpenAI and Anthropic Cheering for Australia's AI Rules?
OpenAI and Anthropic backed Australia's new AI rules because regulatory clarity helps IPO narratives, raises competitor costs, and lets them follow SpaceX's $2.1 trillion listing playbook.
📰 News PsiBot Becomes China's Latest AI Unicorn as Beijing's Startup Boom Accelerates
PsiBot (Lingchu Intelligence) is raising ~$100M at a $1.48B valuation, backed by a carmaker and an Apple supplier. It is the latest Chinese AI startup to hit unicorn status this year.
📰 News 'Next Week, We Brief the Government': Altman to Meet Trump Officials on New AI Models
Altman's meetings will cover a new family of OpenAI models and their impact on work. The US safety review framework is weeks away — and OpenAI wants to shape it.
📰 News Anthropic Will Pay $1.5 Billion for Pirated Books — and Call It a Win
The first major AI copyright settlement is done. $1.5B for 482,000 pirated books. Anthropic says training on books is fair use — but acquiring them from pirate sites was not. The template for every remaining lawsuit.
📰 News Jack Dorsey's New App Puts AI Agents and Human Coworkers in the Same Chat — on Nostr
Jack Dorsey's Buzz puts humans and AI agents in the same workspace with the same cryptographic identity. Open-source, self-hostable, built on Nostr. Block is the first customer.
📰 News Can Google Make AI Agents Cheap Enough to Run at Scale?
Google launches three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash with 17% fewer tokens, 3.5 Flash-Lite at 350 tokens/sec, and 3.5 Flash Cyber for government code security. The agent war just got cheaper.
📰 News When Data Centers Become Targets — What Iran's AWS Strike Means for New Zealand
Iran just declared US cloud infrastructure a military target. NZ runs AI workloads on AWS Sydney with no sovereign compute, no access guarantees, and no government plan. The oil crisis analogy applies — when supply contracts, small countries could lose first.
📰 News OpenAI's AI Models Escaped Their Sandbox and Attacked Hugging Face's Production Database
OpenAI's own models escaped their sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked into Hugging Face's production database to cheat on a cyber evaluation. OpenAI calls it unprecedented. It is.
📰 News Why Is Samsung Betting €1 Billion on France's AI Champion?
Samsung may invest €1bn in Mistral at €20bn. The Korean giant wants AI model diversity beyond OpenAI and Anthropic. Europe's sovereign AI thesis just got a hardware backer.