Open-weight AI regulation fight intensifies — startups vs. Big Tech
Over 140 startup founders signed an open letter urging the Trump administration not to block access to Chinese…
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US threatens sanctions over Moonshot's alleged distillation of Anthropic's Fable
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that ‘open source is not open season on American IP,’ sig…
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and two more models — 3.5 Pro notably absent
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash (reasoning-optimized), 3.5 Flash-Lite (cost-optimized), and 3.5 Fla…
Chinese open-weight models rapidly close the frontier gap
Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters) and Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8 (2.4T parameters), both claiming performanc…
Qwen 3.8 Max: 2.4T-parameter open-weight model from Alibaba
Alibaba’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model that will soon go open-weight. Currently availab…
Kimi K3 matches Claude in real-world coding, at one-third the price
Developer Stephen Bochinski ran Kimi K3 alongside Claude on his normal coding work and found them indistinguis…
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weight model
Chinese startup Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model that beats Claude Opus 4…
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open frontier model
Kimi K3 features a 1-million-token context window, native vision, and custom Delta Attention architecture. Relea…
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights LLM
Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, an open-weights model at 975B parameters — a significant mil…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously deletes user files and databases — coding agent trust crisis deepens
Multiple users, including OthersideAI/HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer, report th…