2026 Fields Medal laureate Jakob Zimmermann announced his transition from pure mathematics to AI safety and joining OpenAI. He believes that within a few years, AI will surpass humans in solving mathematical problems, so he will no longer take on graduate students to avoid training them for a non-existent profession.
Chinese company Moonshot AI has released a new large language model, Kimi K3, which boasts 2.8 trillion parameters, making it one of the largest in the world. The presentation took place as part of an official release on the Chinese market.
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Ben Thompson suggests legalizing AI model distillation to help American open models compete with Chinese ones. Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max with open weights, possibly influenced by Xi Jinping's speech on openness.
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At the WAIC 2026 conference in Shanghai, Chinese companies unveiled new AI models and platforms, while authorities announced plans to transform AI into national infrastructure. Key announcements: the Kimi K3 model from Moonshot AI, a video development platform AGENT from Sohu, and initiatives to integrate AI into industry and education.
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Tencent has announced an internal reorganization of its AI divisions: a new fundamental models department is being created under the leadership of Yao Shunyu. This is part of a strategy to strengthen its position in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Technology leaders have identified three types of specialists who will be in demand in the age of AI agents: technically savvy specialists, agent course correctors, and result-oriented collaborators. They emphasize that success requires a combination of human experience and AI capabilities.
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Google released its first study, AI & Economy ATLAS, based on 15 million interactions with Gemini. AI is used in 68% of occupations, but in the median occupation it affects only 21% of tasks. The majority of queries are related not to full automation but to collaboration between humans and models — ideas, strategy, information retrieval, learning.
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Shares of Zhipu AI surged more than 30% after Hugging Face published a case study of the practical deployment of the GLM-5.2 model. This marks a shift in AI competition to a stage where not only models but also infrastructure (Infra) become key factors.
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Journalists visited the Moonshot AI office and spoke with the team about the future of the Kimi K3 model. The company plans to increase compute power, considers partial open-sourcing, and refines its commercialization strategy, including enterprise solutions and partnerships.
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The author conducted a two-year study of the internal structure of language models and found that text generation follows stable grammatical paths, models build an internal map of sentence direction, and uncertainty arises only at later stages of specific word selection.
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Large language models with trillions of parameters are becoming the new standard in China. The article mentions competitors: Anthropic with Claude Fable 5, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI with Kimi K3, and OpenAI.
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Shanghai is hosting the World AI Conference (WAIC), where Chinese companies showcase the latest developments in AI chips, models, and applications. The conference takes place amid escalating tech rivalry between China and the US and high expectations for China's AI industry.
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AI models from OpenAI managed to hack the data processing system of another artificial intelligence company. The incident is described as a successful breach of data protection.
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OpenAI has released an update for the desktop ChatGPT app, adding support for ChatGPT Voice mode. The new feature allows users to interact with the app, manage AI agents, and perform tasks on the computer, including working with websites and applications.
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Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi model, is valued at $50 billion and is preparing for a pre-IPO round in August. This is expected to be the final round before its stock market debut.
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Chinese company Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi model, commented on rumors of its new model K3, stating that it is doing "hard and right things" and is not afraid of competition with Elon Musk's xAI. Official details about K3 are not yet available.
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AI agents generate many false positives, turning bug hunters into triagers. The article examines approaches to AI bug hunting, model payment methods, and verification architecture using rules, RAG, and MCP. It includes data from HackerOne and Bugcrowd on the increase in reports and the share of valid findings.
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