Kumb-AI-a, comrades: Shanghai's World AI Conference, Xi Jinping launched a 29-nation AI cooperation body and pitched China as an alternative to US-led AI governance. - Yahoo

Xi Jinping called AI development a "symphony of international cooperation" at Shanghai's WAIC, launching WAICO, a 29-nation coalition, in contrast to US trade restrictions - Gizmodo

Investor Gavin Baker says Kimi K3 and cheap Chinese models will squeeze margins at pure-play labs like Anthropic and OpenAI while boosting infrastructure players - NextBigFuture.com

Kimi K3 reportedly matches Claude's coding quality far cheaper, with critics saying restrictive US AI policy cedes ground to Chinese open-weight models - Stephen Bochinski

Kimi, myself, and AI identity crisis: China’s Kimi K3 Identifies Itself As Anthropic’s Claude In At Least One Conversation, Possibly Betraying Distilled Origins - wccftech

Alibaba's Qwen3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, launches as Qwen3.8-Max-Preview with a promised open-weight release to follow. - The Decoder

Kimi K3 creator Yang Zhilin, Carnegie Mellon PhD, founded Moonshot AI in 2023; investor Vinod Khosla blames US immigration limits for his return - Business Insider

Literall Moonshot IPO: China's Moonshot AI seeks investor approval for a Hong Kong IPO within six months, following its latest AI model's release. - Bloomberg

FINRA for Skynet: The White House is weighing a FINRA-style AI safety regulator that would report to the SEC, developed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent - Bloomberg

The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI apps equal Android access, including wake words and on-device data, by August 2027. - Digital Trends

Alibaba open-sources its SAIL software stack, joining Huawei and Moore Threads in challenging Nvidia's CUDA lock-in. - South China Morning Post

Anduril's autonomous YFQ-44A drone fires a live AMRAAM missile; a human must still authorize any shot - TechRadar

Au revoir and tschüss: France and Germany pledge a European military AI rival to Palantir, having already dropped Palantir for ChapsVision's ArgonOS - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

Fed chair Kevin Warsh says AI productivity gains will lower prices, but Fed officials Williams and Cook warn of persistent inflation risk - Yahoo

Tech workers face growing job insecurity as layoffs and automation pressure mount, with economists warning white-collar workers are next. - The Washington Post

Workers over 55 in AI-exposed roles like coding and accounting are leaving jobs at accelerating rates, often into unemployment rather than retirement. - Yahoo

Indeed's chief economist says aging Baby Boomers and falling birth rates, not AI, are driving a looming US labor shortage - Yahoo

AI goes phishin’: AI-crafted phishing emails hit a 54% click rate versus 12% for generic ones, as cybercrime costs could reach $14 trillion by 2028. - Forbes

Bank identity checks are being defeated by AI-generated deepfakes faster than the government can respond, fraud expert David Maimon told Congress - Fox News

AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic identities helped push crypto scam losses to at least $14 billion in 2025, Chainalysis found - Yahoo

As AI agents from Robinhood and Visa gain access to credit cards, experts warn of new scams like prompt injection - Yahoo

Teamsters opposition to Waymo's robotaxi expansion in Boston shows how union resistance is dividing Democrats' abundance and affordability factions on automation - Yahoo

Garment workers in Delhi discovered head cameras were training AI robots to replace their jobs despite denials, sparking resistance. - openDemocracy

A federal judge declined to block Meta from laying off 26 workers who allege AI tools targeted them for disabilities or medical leave - Reuters

Campaigns edit websites to shape chatbot answers about them; a study found over a third of AI answers about Scotland's election were wrong. - The New York Times

Grok the vote: AGA influencer 'Gunther Eagleman' lost a debate with Grok chatbot after it rejected his 2020 stolen-election claims, and repeated community notes vaulted him to the top of the correction leaderboard. - Raw Story

Common Sense Media warns Google's AI search tools expose students to misinformation and let them cheat on homework. - Mashable SEA

AI psychosis grips execs - ludic.mataroa.blog

Dunning-Kruger as a service: Study finds AI user makes people grow more confident even as their accuracy falls, making them less willing to admit uncertainty. - theregister

Samsung began asking users to consent to AI training on health and menstrual-tracking data, amid growing scrutiny of AI data-privacy compliance. - BGR

Denied by design: 2025 AMA survey found 61% of physicians worry AI-driven prior authorization will increase wrongful denials of necessary care - Ars Technica

Most enterprises can query data via AI agents like Snowflake's Cortex Analyst, but lack the QA and governance layers to trust the answers. - Towards Data Science

GPT-5.6 Sol Pro used a 148-minute proof to close a 30-year gap in a convex optimization complexity lower bound, verified in Lean - reddit

Claude Code now runs on a Rust port of Bun starting with version 2.1.181, cutting startup time by about 10% on Linux. - Simon Willison’s Weblog

A tracking site counted 35 OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT usage-limit resets over 26 weeks, averaging one every 8.9 days. - Codex Resets

10 open-source no-code AI app builders for citizen devs - MarkTechPost

A former CIA operative helped assess whether the U.A.E. could be trusted with advanced US technology, aiding its AI ambitions. - The Wall Street Journal

ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra AI phone sold out in hours and doubled in resale price, as Chinese makers race to build AI agents into hardware - TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

No bots in baseball: MLB banned custom AI apps on dugout iPads starting the second half of the season, after teams reportedly used them for pitch-calling and lineup decisions - Yahoo Sports

Mets interim manager Andy Green called the club fully compliant, declining to address ex-reliever Ottavino's claim of hundreds of thousands spent on AI - the Guardian

Author Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT is making teachers' jobs harder and 'silencing an entire generation' of student writers - The Verge

Novelist Dave Eggers says AI-generated novels are 'gullible and ridiculous' and predicts no one will ever read them. - Financial Times

Claude be with you: Oklahoma City pastor Darrell Stetler uses ChatGPT and Claude to speed up sermon writing while remaining wary AI cannot truly understand scripture. - The Wall Street Journal

AI at happy hour: AI-generated flyers with uncanny, photorealistic imagery have flooded Houston bars and restaurants, prompting some venues nationally to ban them. - Houston Chronicle

ChatGooPT: OpenAI wants to make ChatGPT a lifestyle brand - TechRepublic

when you accidentally post "Show the POV of the man in blue 16:9" in a new chat - Reddit

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