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Trump administration weighs hosting liability and bans for Chinese AI
Proposed rules target advanced models like Moonshot's Kimi K3.
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Stratechery argues US AI labs face little threat from Chinese competitors
The analysis advocates open-source US models to maintain dominance.
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Runway says its AI cuts media production costs 1,000-fold
A $5 million broadcast campaign cost under $4,000.
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OpenAI Codex independently derives Jacobian conjecture counterexample
It replicated a recent human discovery without web search.
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Alibaba launches Qwen3.8 Max with 2.4 trillion parameters
The model reportedly rivals Fable 5 on internal benchmarks.
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Google's "Frozen v2" chip hardcodes Gemini architecture into silicon
The hardware targets tenfold TPU efficiency gains by 2028.
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YC co-founder Trevor Blackwell argues AI increases developer value
Blackwell calls AI his career's fifth wave of automation.
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US AI standards director Chris Fall resigns after three months
NIST Director Arvind Raman is now acting head
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Bill Gurley argues open-source AI is market competition, not a threat
He urged regulators to let free market forces operate.
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Moonshot AI Kimi K3 open-weight model features 2.8T parameters
The model uses custom-designed chips to handle execution.
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xAI launches Grok 4.5 integration for Microsoft Excel
The integration builds financial models and generates spreadsheet charts.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 tops Frontend Web App Arena leaderboard
It also placed fourth on the Agent Arena leaderboard.
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OpenAI safety analysis details unique risks of long-horizon models
Standard short-horizon evaluations often miss these persistent model risks.
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Meta engineers shame executives into stopping AI-generated Workplace posts
Employees criticized the low-quality automated updates in comment sections.
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Infinity raises $15M, beating vLLM speed by 34%
Its autonomously written engine optimized Qwen3 on Corsair hardware.
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Former Army Captain Connor Love joins a16z American Dynamism as partner
He previously backed defense systems startup Castelion.
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Victor Taelin argues AI will drive living costs to near zero
He predicts plummeting costs will eliminate the need for UBI.
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NVIDIA releases Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4B physical AI model
The model runs locally on NVIDIA Jetson Thor hardware.
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Joint scaling law optimizes compute split between pretraining and RL
Optimal RL compute share increases as total budget grows
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Applied Compute team spends Friday night solving IMO math problems
The late-night whiteboard session sparked debate over workplace culture.