China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
China has ordered Meta to unwind its acquisition of AI startup Manus, the latest sign of escalating tech tensions between Beijing and Washington.
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A new paper finds Muon, an optimizer used by DeepSeek V4, makes models perfectly calibrated on training data but overconfident on new samples.
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A former TSMC engineer was sentenced to 10 years for stealing 2nm process secrets and sharing them with Tokyo Electron's Taiwan subsidiary, which was fined NT$1.5 billion ($45 million).
China's 'Palantir Clone' Zhongshu Ruizhi Lands Nine-Figure Series B
Zhongshu Ruizhi, China's Palantir-like AI agent startup, raises a nine-figure Series B backed by state funds. It claims a dynamic ontology that beats Palantir.
Musk sues OpenAI for $134 billion over broken nonprofit vow
Elon Musk is taking OpenAI to federal court, demanding $134 billion in damages and alleging that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman betrayed the company's original nonprofit mission to build safe, open AI.
xAI ships Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, already handling Starlink support
xAI's flagship voice agent model tackles background noise and accents, scoring top marks on a tough benchmark and now handling Starlink customer service.
GPT-5.5 is finally competitive — but OpenAI buried a loss to Opus 4.7
SemiAnalysis tests show GPT-5.5 is once again a top coding model, but OpenAI quietly switched benchmarks after Opus 4.7 beat it — and the fine print tells the real story.
Build your own AI benchmarks, says Google DeepMind product lead
Google DeepMind product lead Logan Kilpatrick urges AI companies to build custom benchmarks tailored to their business, arguing that public leaderboards miss what matters.
OpenAI is building an AI agent phone with MediaTek and Qualcomm
OpenAI is working with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare to build a dedicated AI agent smartphone, targeting a 2028 release.
Singapore's foreign minister runs his AI assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5
Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan built a personal AI assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5, integrating WhatsApp and Gmail with a local knowledge graph. He says he dares not turn it off.