China Built an Export Wall for Its AI. This One Faces Outward.
Washington spent four years blocking chips from entering China. On Friday Beijing proposed the mirror image: controls on 23 AI technologies, including the model weights and source code behind its own fast-rising labs. The irony is that open models were China's great soft-power win, and now it wants a lever over them.
Read full story →Meta Built an Open Model to Catch China. It Needed Apple to Pull It Off.
Two old enemies just shipped an AI model together: Meta's Muse Spark Open, tuned to run on Apple's Mac Studio. It is the most capable open-weight model a US company has released, yet it still trails the Chinese models it is chasing. The real surprise is the truce.
Read full story →Microsoft Says It Beat OpenAI's Model Using a Quarter of the Computers
Microsoft's AI chief told staff the company trained a model that outperforms the one behind GPT-5.6 on far less compute. The claim is unverified, the partner it is aimed at is OpenAI, and the market barely blinked. The efficiency number, not the boast, is the real story.
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