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A person familiar with the matter said that a report claiming Moonshot AI could submit a Hong Kong IPO application as early as this month is untrue. The report attributed the rebuttal to the source rather than to Moonshot AI itself, and did not indicate that the company had filed with the Hong Kong…

Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness.

The Qwen family had nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads and more than 50% of global open-source AI downloads by early 2026, according to a report.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic’s Fable.

DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The model card is explicit that this is the official release superseding the preview, and that the architecture and size are unchanged.

The European Commission launched a tender for the buildout, in a bid to close in on U.S. and Chinese competitors.

As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.

U.S. lawmakers request information from DoorDash on use of Chinese AI models CNBC

China overcomes US ban with AI chip breakthrough Yahoo Finance Singapore

RedNote has been in talks with VNET, one of China’s largest data center operators, and is targeting delivery in the first quarter of 2027, the person said.

Tencent has released AngelSpec, an open-source torch-native framework for training speculative-decoding draft models across six architectures. It introduces DFly, a block-diffusion drafter with hybrid target conditioning and a hidden-correction autoregressive head, and integrates D-cut for…

Distillation lets AI companies train new models using existing ones. The White House says Chinese firms are using it to gain an edge, raising questions about competition and intellectual property.

New research from LexisNexis showed the nation’s growing influence in the robotics industry.

There is no point competing in isolation. There are so many benefits to be had, in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance Zheng Zeguang is the Chinese ambassador to the UK Artificial intelligence is widely regarded as one of the defining technologies of our time.

Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union…

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies.

Looking ahead just a short time, Apple could hold a powerful position in AI where it most makes sense: deployment. Not only will the company offer up its own AI models for the kind of tasks millions use ChatGPT to do today, but it will provide more sophisticated on-device agentic models to help…

China’s daily AI token calls reached 140 trillion by March 2026, up more than 1,000-fold from roughly 100 billion in early 2024, according to figures cited by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology deputy head Wei Liang in a CCTV Finance program preview published on July 18.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI stunned developers on Thursday with a massive new model that may rival the best American systems at a fraction of the cost. Why it matters: Kimi K3's early performance is fueling awe across the AI world. and alarm in Silicon Valley and Washington.

In Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates, AI is as much a part of daily life as reporting a pothole or making a doctor's appointment or paying a parking ticket. because AI does all that for you.

China dropped a numerical target for urban job creation over the next five years for the first time in decades, in an apparent nod to rising uncertainty over employment as AI spreads through the economy.

Apple’s iOS 27/macOS 27 cycle is revealing something new: AI is only as good as the operating system that supports it. The latest beta releases show that after two years in which the company has promised to become AI-native, testers finally believe it’s happening as Apple prioritizes improved…

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On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI.