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Society

Xi Jinping pitches China as leader of a new global AI order

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai by casting Beijing as the champion of a new, more open global AI order, urging countries to embrace open source AI and pledging support for developing nations, in a direct challenge to US influence over the industry's rules.

4:34 AM

Products

Amazon's Zoox issues a software recall after a robotaxi drove into heavy smoke

6:12 PM

Products

China's Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model it says rivals OpenAI and Anthropic

1:38 AM

Industry

Industry

Chip stock selloff deepens across Asia as TSMC results fail to impress and Taiwan enters a correction

6:00 AM

Industry

Apple overtakes Nvidia as the world's most valuable company

6:52 AM

Society

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape and starts blocking them

3:38 AM

Industry

The first AI chip backed loan turns to inference chips in a 400 million dollar deal

5:00 AM

Industry

US China AI feud leaves ASML walking a tightrope between sales and geopolitics

4:08 AM

Products

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

11:32 AM

Products

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

11:22 AM

Society

Palantir's chief technology officer says China's AI models pose an economic threat and calls for reindustrializing America

5:04 PM

Society

Elon Musk's Memphis AI data center becomes the epicenter of a national backlash

3:09 PM

In Brief

Society 4:20 AM Chinese fraud rings are using AI to scale tap to pay scams stealing billions from banks and retailers
Research 6:02 AM Google researchers explain why diffusion models can be creative instead of just copying their training data
Industry 6:02 AM JPMorgan strategist says the AI trade's earnings strength has been justified so far