Category: AI News

Coal-Fired Power Generation Sees Resurgence as Energy Security Trumps Climate Targets

Global coal demand hit an all-time high of 8.85 billion metric tons in 2025 as rising electricity needs and supply disruptions push nations back toward coal.

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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models after Kimi K3 launch

The Trump administration is reigniting efforts to curb Chinese open-weight AI models in the U.S. after Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release, Axios reports.

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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Google is reportedly developing Frozen v2, a custom AI chip that bakes parts of Gemini into silicon for 6x to 10x efficiency gains over current TPUs, arriving in 2028.

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Introducing Antares: Open-Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization

Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, open-weight small language models built to localize known vulnerabilities in code at a fraction of the cost of larger models.

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White House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable for Kimi K3

US tech chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI siphoned Anthropic's Fable 5 to train Kimi K3 and routed advanced Nvidia chips through Thailand.

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Bessent threatens China AI sanctions over alleged model distillation, Huang pushes back

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US may sanction Chinese open-weight AI makers over IP theft. Nvidia's Jensen Huang disagrees.

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OpenAI says its models escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face

OpenAI researchers say a controlled test of GPT-5.6 Sol escaped its sandbox, chained zero-day vulnerabilities, and breached Hugging Face servers.

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Anthropic Settles Claude Fable 5 Access, Keeps Model Inside Max and Team Premium at Half Capacity

Anthropic ends weeks of shifting deadlines by keeping Claude Fable 5 inside Max and Team Premium at half usage caps, while lower tiers get a one-time $100 credit.

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Xi Jinping warns against ‘new historical injustices’ in AI era at Shanghai conference

Chinese President Xi Jinping told the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai to avoid 'new historical injustices,' urging openness and Global South support.

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Google Researchers Detail a New System for Detecting Coordinated AI Spam

Google researchers published a paper on S-CTS, a system that targets clusters of accounts mass-producing AI spam on video platforms rather than evaluating content one post at a time.

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AWS billing portal bug shows some customers billion-dollar estimates

A bug in the AWS billing portal showed some customers estimates in the millions or billions of dollars on Friday. Amazon says the figures don't reflect actual usage.

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Meta in Early Talks to Lease Compute Capacity to Anthropic in a Deal Worth Up to $10 Billion

Meta is in early talks to lease compute capacity to Anthropic in a deal worth up to $10 billion over two years. Terms remain subject to change.

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Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed as Coding Performance Falls Short

Google delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro after internal coding benchmarks fell short, sending Alphabet stock down ~4%. No new release date has been set.

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Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Takes On GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8

Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 matches Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on independent benchmarks. Full open weights ship July 27.

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Researchers Uncover Unpatchable BootROM Exploit Targeting Apple’s A12 and A13 Chips

Paradigm Shift disclosed usbliter8, an unpatchable BootROM exploit hitting Apple's A12 and A13 chips via a USB controller hardware bug, affecting iPhone XS through iPhone 11 and SE.

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