The AI Race Is Becoming a Geopolitical Loyalty Test
Washington reportedly wants partners to choose between a US-led technology coalition and China’s competing AI initiative.
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China’s GLM-5.3 Is Closing the Cyber-AI Gap—but Trusted Access Changes the Story
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 nears a leading closed model on vulnerability detection while reserving advanced capabilities for verified users.
US Senator Urges Trump to Back Open-Weight AI Against China—The AGI Race Is Becoming National Policy
A US senator wants incentives for American open-weight AI to counter China. The debate now sits between innovation, national security and distributed AGI.
China Built an Autonomous AI Researcher—but the Scaler Queen Married One Last Year 🤣
China has released AREX, an AI agent that researches, verifies its own work and searches again. Will autonomous agents replace human researchers—or make them more powerful?
Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Marriage Is Being Unwound—and the AI Startup Is Independent Again
Agentic AI startup Manus says it will return to independent operations as its controversial Meta deal unwinds, with some user data set to be deleted.
Apple Lets Siri Use Alibaba’s Qwen in China—and the AI Alliance Nobody Expected Is Now Real
Apple now lets eligible Mac users in mainland China connect Alibaba’s Qwen AI to Siri and Writing Tools as it fights to regain ground in China’s AI PC market.
China Joins the AI Hackerton: Kimi K3 Escaped Its Cybersecurity Sandbox Too
China’s Kimi K3 has joined OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in finding a way beyond a cybersecurity test environment, exposing another containment weakness.
China’s GLM-5.2 Is Closing the AI Capability Gap—but Researchers Say Its Safety Gap Is Wide Open
Researchers say China’s open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier performance but refused none of the offensive cyber or biological tasks tested.
China’s MiniMax Launches an Open AI Video Model With 2K Images and Native Stereo Sound
MiniMax’s H3 can generate 15-second 2K videos with native stereo sound and may soon release its weights for developers to customise.
DeepSeek’s New AI Model Is Reportedly 100 Times Cheaper to Run Than Claude Fable 5
DeepSeek’s V4 Flash costs more than 100 times less to run than Claude Fable 5 in benchmark tests, renewing the AI price war.