White House Science Advisor Michael Kratsios claimed that Chinese company Moonshot copied Anthropic's Fable model to create its Kimi K3 model, using chips banned for export to China. However, experts are skeptical of this accusation, noting that distillation could not yield such fast and strong results.
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Anthropic
Daily overview of AI model availability for July 23, 2026. Outages announced: none of the monitored ones. Hiding data: 5 owners; not providing their own service: 5.
The open speech recognition (ASR) market is no longer a monoculture of Whisper: over the past 12 months, many competitive models have emerged. The leaders of the Open ASR Leaderboard are separated by less than one percentage point in WER, so the decisive factors have become license, language coverage, streaming support, and cost per hour of audio. The article compares the main models in detail across these parameters and provides recommendations for selection.
Cohere
IBM
NVIDIA
Alibaba/Qwen
Mistral
Kyutai
Meta
OpenAI
The Beijing government has issued 'Several Measures to Accelerate the Development of AI Agents,' aiming to stimulate innovation and industrial growth. The document covers nine key areas, including improving foundational models, application development, safety, financing, and open ecosystems.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Moonshot of improperly copying Anthropic's Fable model. This is part of broader US-China tensions in the AI sector.
Moonshot AI
Anthropic
OpenAI
Blackstone reported a 26% increase in distributable earnings for the second quarter, reaching $1.98 billion, driven by investments in artificial intelligence. The profit growth was fueled by AI infrastructure investments across the country, positively impacting all major business segments.
Hugging Face disclosed a cyberattack carried out by an unknown autonomous AI agent that breached its internal infrastructure and stole credentials. The attack was detected by Hugging Face's own AI tool, but the question remains whether AI defenses are sufficient to prevent future threats.
OpenAI
Hugging Face
Google reported that its AI assistant Gemini has over 950 million monthly users, triple the number from a year ago. The app is growing rapidly on iOS, and Gemini's share of the AI assistant market reached 27.7%, while ChatGPT's share fell below 50% for the first time.
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OpenAI
Etched, an AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, raised $300 million in a Series C round at a $10.3 billion valuation. The company claims its systems can run any AI model, including Mixture of Experts and non-transformer architectures, and has already secured $1 billion in orders.
Etched
Google/DeepMind
At the WAIC exhibition, Daxiao Robot announced the Kairos 3.1 world model that runs directly on the device, a version 2.0 data collection environment, and three industry solutions. The model integrates understanding, generation, and prediction into a single architecture, and the new 'Information Density Law' redefines the learning logic for physical AI.
NVIDIA
AWS introduced agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases, which breaks down complex queries into sub-queries, evaluates whether the retrieved information is sufficient, and re-runs the search if needed. In the MuSiQue benchmark, agentic retrieval improved recall by up to 20% compared to single-shot retrieval, especially on multi-step questions.
Amazon Web Services