The White House finalizes a secret voluntary AI framework but refuses to reveal its contents, implementation timeline, or who reviewed it, leaving policymakers, safety advocates, and U.S. allies in the dark about rules governing the world's most powerful AI models.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a massive 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model claiming to rival or surpass Anthropic's best, escalating US-China AI competition as China pushes open-weight releases to expand global tech influence.
AI competition heats up as Alibaba launches a model rivaling Anthropic's Claude, Amazon finalizes a landmark $50 billion OpenAI investment, and a federal judge upholds Minnesota's ban on 'nudify' apps despite xAI's legal challenge.
The EU AI Act now empowers the European Commission to fine U.S. AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic up to 15 million euros or 3% of annual turnover, inspect their models, and restrict market access, escalating transatlantic tech tensions as President Trump threatens tariffs in response.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a massive 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model priced far below US rivals at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens, intensifying the global AI price war as Chinese labs continue closing the gap with American competitors.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot is leveraging a cluster of 20,000 Nvidia chips through an Alibaba deal to power its Kimi AI models, including the newly launched open-source Kimi K3, which rivals OpenAI and Anthropic on key benchmarks, underscoring China's continued reliance on Western semiconductors to fuel its booming AI race.
China's Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a free open-weight model ranking third globally on Artificial Analysis's AI index, surpassing DeepSeek and Meta's Llama, offering governments and businesses a powerful alternative to costly U.S. AI software — though trust concerns and chip dependency on American hardware may limit widespread adoption.
The Trump administration's FCC has banned future imports of foreign robot vacuums and autonomous ground robots, targeting any software-controlled, wirelessly connected ground robot over 4.4 pounds capable of perceiving its environment, citing national security concerns, while existing approved devices like Roombas remain unaffected.
Google launches Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced AI model enabling humanoid robots to convert vision and language into full-body motor control, as a wave of generalist robotic AI startups reshapes the industry and the FCC moves to ban foreign-made robots over 4.4 pounds, threatening to upend US robotics supply …
DeepSeek is planning a massive 1-gigawatt AI data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, signaling a major infrastructure expansion for the Hangzhou-based startup that has already proven it can rival leading Silicon Valley AI models.