Chinese AI Model Takes U.S. by Surprise with Abilities Rivaling Claude and ChatGPT
The Beijing-based startup Moonshot on Friday unveiled its Kimi K3, the latest release of ‘open-source’ AI making California titans of AI sweat

The Beijing-based startup Moonshot on Friday unveiled its Kimi K3, the latest release of ‘open-source’ AI making California titans of AI sweat

ISP outages: Globally, ISP outages decreased from 126 to 105, a 17% week-over-week decrease. In the U.S., ISP outages decreased from 70 to 54, a 23% decrease. Public cloud network outages: Globally, public cloud network outages increased from 61 to 95, a 56% week-over-week increase. In the U.S., outages increased from 50 to 79, a 58%…
The Scope: This isn’t a benchmark pitting agent frameworks against each other, nor does it claim this controller is “smarter.” It claims something narrower and much more defensible: that failure isolation is a real, measurable architectural property. It’s a Pattern, Not a Product: Loop engineering is a control-flow pattern, not a specific framework. It’s the…
The music industry’s battle with artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. After spending the past two years fighting AI companies in court and pushing back against unauthorized training on copyrighted music, record labels are now turning their attention to something far simpler: transparency. A coalition representing major record labels, artists, and music organizations wants…
It’s the latest in a barrage of efforts to win compensation from AI companies over training materials. Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images A trio of publishers and one author are seeking a class action lawsuit against Google on claims that the tech company broke copyright law by using their works to train its Gemini AI….
Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line. At VB Transform 2026, Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fleet of specialist…
What I find most corrosive is what it does to the CIO’s standing over time. Every initiative the CIO executes but did not shape reinforces a story about what the CIO is for. They become the person who runs the technology other people decided on. That is a fine description of an order taker and…