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Chinese open-weight models are cheap. Washington is deciding what that costs.

On July 16, Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3 — the largest open-weight model released to date — and within days it had reignited a policy debate in Washington that most developers assumed was settled. The question isn't whether Chinese open-weight models are technically competitive. They clearly are. The

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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Six to ten times more efficient. That's the performance leap Google is reportedly targeting with its next-generation AI chip — and it could reshape how every developer on the planet interacts with Gemini. Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient at a moment when the

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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’

Christopher Nolan just handed the AI skeptics their most quotable line yet: "a transparent horse, it's made of glass." The Odyssey director's comments landed during a press interview this week — and for developers and founders across Asia who are building with AI every single day, the remark cuts cl

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What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit

Jensen Huang spent two days in Tokyo on July 15 and 16, and he didn't leave empty-handed. He walked away with a national AI factory deal, a robotics coalition spanning Japan's biggest industrial names, and partnerships with the chip-material suppliers building Nvidia's next generation of hardware. W

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Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

A $6,880 phone. An AI agent baked into the hardware. And a pitch aimed squarely at C-suite executives who want their calendar managed, their documents summarized, and their spreadsheets analyzed — all from a hand-stitched foldable that costs more than most developers' monthly salary. Vertu wants exe

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Kimi: Threat or menace?

Wall Street dropped 1% on a Friday because of a Chinese AI model. Let that sink in. When Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 this week, it didn't just generate another round of tech Twitter discourse — it moved markets, rattled chip stocks, and reignited a geopolitical conversation that Silicon Valley has

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Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

A co-founder of one of venture capital's most successful firms sat down in Athens and said something that's hard to forget: the wealth piling up around AI will be redistributed, one way or another. Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out — and whether that happens voluntarily or by force i

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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

A venture capitalist renamed himself on Zoom. Not to a nickname, not to a company title — to a legal disclaimer. "Jeremy Levine I do not consent to transcribing or recording." That sentence, equal parts absurd and ingenious, is the clearest signal yet that AI-powered recording has crossed from usefu

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Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app

Type a sentence. Get a game. That's the promise Roblox made on July 16, 2026, when it announced "Build" — a new AI-powered feature that turns plain-text prompts into playable games directly from a mobile device. No Lua scripting. No Roblox Studio. No desktop required. Roblox launches an AI-powered g

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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

Microsoft and OpenAI were supposed to be the tech world's most committed couple. Then Bloomberg reported Microsoft was quietly swapping out OpenAI models for its own in-house MAI models inside Word and Excel — and suddenly everyone started asking if the relationship was falling apart. OpenAI's answe

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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Google just dropped one of the more audacious AI ads of 2026: a reimagining of the Declaration of Independence as a Google Workspace group project, complete with Gemini taking meeting notes and the Founding Fathers declining King George III's document access request on the advice of a chatbot. The n

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Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates

Google just made it significantly harder to justify hiring a video production team for internal content. Two new features landing in Google Vids — Gemini Omni and personal avatars — let you generate, refine, and star in videos without touching a camera or a timeline scrubber. For developers and foun