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A look at the narrowing US-China AI gap, as a spate of compelling, low-cost releases makes Chinese AI models increasingly attractive to businesses — A spate of compelling releases at budget prices have made China the frontrunner in the race for global adoption.| SemiAnalysis: |
With each successive era of LLMs, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model — Comparing open vs. closed models across the eras of frontier models, Is the gap narrowing? — ∙ Paid
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction — Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 — The Justice Department and TikTok, along with parent company ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations of violating children's online privacy laws …
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| Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: |
Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unknown AI lab drops an anonymous model - Ox Alpha - for free, while declaring that they have the capacity …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI — Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors — The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman's role has expanded significantly, giving him control over its product and scaling teams following a wave of executive departures — OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former cofounder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial …
X: @verge and @grahamstarr
| Emmett Lindner / New York Times: |
Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications — Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, with users reveling in a slower pace of life.| Wall Street Journal: |
How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability — State governors, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, slowing development of the facilities as anger over AI spreads
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| Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens — OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more than 20% for the next three months …
More: Livemint, Tech in Asia, RuntimeWire, and The Decoder
| Financial Times: |
Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers have made robotics a ‘strategic priority’ — At the World Robot Conference in Beijing this week …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Rundoo Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, said today it has closed …
More: citybiz, Rundoo, Pulse 2.0, Silicon Valley Business …, Rundoo, Hardware Retailing, and FinSMEs. X: @rundooai
| Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: |
Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs — Amazon has raised prices for several of its first-party devices, including its Echo smart speakers and Fire TV line … Sponsor Posts
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