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Monday, July 27

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Sunday, July 26

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Regulation and law only one source so far

Chinese model Kimi and US concerns over AI competitiveness

The debate around Kimi from Moonshot AI concerns US worries about competitiveness. OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly lobbying regulators over concerns about open Chinese models. Participants in the discussion highlight overreactions and the possibility that regulation could benefit only large companies.

TechCrunch AI Original source ↗
Security only one source so far

Trade in discounted LLM tokens: abuse of proxy services in China

The article describes a marketplace for discounted proxies to LLM APIs, primarily in China, where resellers circumvent restrictions and reduce costs by abusing free trials and sometimes stolen payment cards. It highlights the risk to developers exposing LLM applications and suggests more precise limits on API keys.

Simon Willison — AI tag (leading independent LLM commentator) Original source ↗
Regulation and law only one source so far

US considers selective bans on Chinese open AI models rather than a blanket ban

According to the New York Times, the Trump administration favors targeted bans on specific Chinese models rather than a blanket ban. OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed a letter opposing regulation of open models; Anthropic and OpenAI are lobbying for restrictions on them. Chinese models lag behind in safety tests.

The Decoder (daily AI news) Original source ↗

Saturday, July 25

9 items
Other only one source so far

Librarians hold workshops on turning off AI features

Librarians in the US are holding workshops on turning off AI features, especially Apple Intelligence and Gemini. Hannah Cyrus from Maine published an article about her own workshop, inspiring dozens of librarians around the world. The workshops drew record interest — attendance at the first two sessions was around…

TechCrunch AI Original source ↗
Other clearly official source

Incident: Reduced availability of GPT models in Copilot

Seven GPT models (GPT-5.2, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 Mini, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-5.6 Luna) experienced reduced availability in Copilot products and IDEs. The cause was an upstream provider failure. The incident was resolved and the service is being monitored.

GitHub Status — incident history Original source ↗
Business and investment only one source so far

NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield expand AI infrastructure in South Korea

NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield plan to expand AI infrastructure in South Korea from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts by 2028 on the NVIDIA DSX platform. NVIDIA is investing 1 billion dollars, while Brookfield pledges up to 9 billion. The infrastructure will be located in the GAK Sejong data center and serve companies in Korea…

NVIDIA Newsroom (press releases) Original source ↗
Open-source only one source so far

Naver-News-KO: a Korean dataset for fine-tuning summarization models

A technical report on the Naver-News-KO dataset with 27 400 (document, summary) pairs from Korean news from July 2022, available on Hugging Face Hub since January 2023. In May 2026, it reaches about 33 000 downloads per month. It includes baseline models (KoBART, Gemma-2B-ko with LoRA) with a ROUGE-1 score of 56.6 % and…

arXiv cs.CL (Computation and Language / NLP) Original source ↗
Hardware only one source so far

OpenAI's Micro keypad for ChatGPT and Codex

OpenAI released the Micro keypad ($230) in collaboration with Work Louder. It has 6 configurable keys for ChatGPT and the Codex agentic coding tool, and supports Bluetooth and USB. Developer reviews are critical — citing a high price and questionable practical usefulness compared with DIY alternatives.

TechCrunch AI Original source ↗

Friday, July 24

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AI agents only one source so far

Cognition acquires AI assistant Poke for a low nine-figure amount

Cognition, the startup behind the Devin coding agent, acquired AI assistant Poke for a low nine-figure amount. Poke exchanged 100+ million messages within three months. Cognition wants to integrate Poke's friendly communication style into Devin; Poke itself will use Cognition's infrastructure.

TechCrunch AI Original source ↗
New models only one source so far

Anthropic released Opus 5 with fewer restrictions and Automatic Fallbacks

Anthropic introduced Opus 5 – according to the company, it is cheaper and less restricted than Fable 5, and even outperforms it on a number of benchmarks in its own announcement. The new Automatic Fallbacks beta feature redirects queries blocked by safety filters to a less capable model instead of returning an error message.

Business and investment only one source so far

Microsoft's open-weight strategy is an Azure play

Microsoft signed a letter supporting open-weight models, but the text says the primary aim is to strengthen Azure and reduce costs. It is also replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models in Copilots with its own MAI models, which are weaker according to benchmarks.

The Decoder (daily AI news) Original source ↗
Coding only one source so far

An explainable banking product recommendation system on AWS

AWS describes the architecture of a Next-Best-Product recommendation system for banks. It uses PyTorch and Amazon SageMaker with a multi-tower neural network and a learned attention mechanism to improve accuracy and interpretability, which matters for regulatory compliance. The article includes an architectural overview and…

AWS Machine Learning Blog Original source ↗
Tools and apps only one source so far

Bluesky adds a social research feature to the AI assistant Attie

Bluesky now offers Quests in the AI assistant Attie, a feature that allows users to ask questions and search for information on the social network, including trends and influential accounts. Attie, launched in March 2026, is available in beta via a waitlist and is free for now; Bluesky is gradually developing it as a tool for…

TechCrunch AI Original source ↗
Regulation and law only one source so far

Silicon Valley is divided over its approach to Chinese AI

Large AI companies (Anthropic, OpenAI) lobby for regulation of Chinese models and distillation; smaller startups (Little Tech Association) oppose this, arguing for market freedom. Investors are also divided — Bill Gurley supports the free market, while Chamath Palihapitiya criticizes the protection of corporate interests.

Wired — AI section Original source ↗