Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs.
Nextgov

Intelligence agencies warn of China’s large-scale AI model distillation efforts

Three agencies issued a joint statement warning that Chinese companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z ...

What's the best AI model for graphic design, video ads, lip sync and more? OpenArt's new Arena offers leaderboards for different media jobs

Those results are more useful as a map of where models appear strongest than as a proclamation of one permanent winner — ...
Wired

OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities

OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a ...

Cognichip Creates Physics-Informed AI Models To Speed Chip Design

Cognichip has unveiled its AI Chip Intelligence (ACI) system, potentially revolutionizing chip design with a unique physics-based AI approach.
CNBC

‘Model fatigue’ sets in as AI labs race to roll out new versions at frenetic pace

Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google all released model updates this week as the pace of new releases continues to accelerate. "We are in an environment where there's just so much frothiness that you ...
Wall Street Journal

Introducing the AI Model ‘Harness’

Good morning. As AI continues to evolve rapidly, there’s an increasingly important concept for business tech leaders to think about, and it’s called the AI model harness. The harness around a model is ...
Nature

AI model predicts which breast-cancer drugs work best

Model trained on millions of protein measurements can gauge drug effectiveness in tissue samples taken from people with ...
TechCrunch

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious new open-weight AI model launched onto OpenRouter anonymously and already topping ...
The Next Web

US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted

A joint NSA, FBI and CISA advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI over industrial-scale ...
CNBC

Z.ai shares surge 8% after releasing new AI model running only on Chinese chips

Z.ai's shares rose after the company launched a new AI model that it claimed runs only on Chinese chips. It's the latest indication of China's efforts to ramp up homegrown computing capability. Rival ...
TechCrunch

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it. For its new Muse Spark model, intended ...