Silicon Valley Divided Over Chinese Open-Weight AI Models
Silicon Valley is split over the impact of Chinese-made open-weight AI models, with some fearing security risks and others arguing for free-market access.
Archive
Browse all published articles.
ARCHIVE
-
-
Trump's EPA May Ease Rules for Data Centers
The Trump administration is considering a rule change that could let data centers and other facilities use minor permits, reducing public input in the process.
-
OpenAI Adds Voice Mode to ChatGPT Desktop App
OpenAI has added ChatGPT Voice to the desktop app, allowing users to control AI agents and perform tasks using voice commands. The update is available globally today.
-
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
Midjourney acquired Co-Star, an astrology app with 4.3 million monthly active users, according to Bloomberg.
-
Bluesky's Attie AI Expands Into Open Social Research Tool
Bluesky has added a new feature called Quests to its AI assistant Attie, enabling users to explore trends and influential accounts across the AT Protocol network.
-
U.S. AI Companies Urge Against Open-Weight Model Restrictions
U.S. AI firms including Hugging Face and Microsoft urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight models as tensions with China over intellectual property rise.
-
AWS Launches Explainable NBP Recommender for Banking
AWS introduces a next-best-product recommendation system for banking using SageMaker and PyTorch, designed to provide actionable insights from customer data.
-
HuggingFace Releases Jbliterated Models with Refusal Removed
HuggingFace announced on July 20, 2026, the release of Jbliterated models that remove refusal behavior without affecting personality or knowledge.
-
Kimi K3 Trails U.S. Frontier Models on Cyber Exploits
Kimi K3 scored 32.2% on ExploitBench, while leading U.S. models reached 76.2% in cyber exploit development, per a joint evaluation by the British AI Security Institute and the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation.
-
Teens Growing Skeptical of AI Despite High Adoption
37 percent of teens aged 13 to 17 cringe at AI-generated content, according to YPulse research.
-
NVIDIA and KAIST Launch Joint AI Research Lab in Seoul
NVIDIA and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced a joint AI research lab in Seoul, marking the first collaboration between a Korean university and a global tech company.
-
AI Guardrails Hinder Offensive Cybersecurity Research
U.S. export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models have restricted access for cybersecurity researchers, limiting their ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities.