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Ant Group restructures Alipay around AI agentsAnt Group merged its digital payment, Alipay, and Zhima Credit business groups into a new Alipay unit, betting on "agentic commerce." CEO Cyril Han said the sector is entering explosive, large-scale growth, with Wu Minzhi leading the new group while remaining chief people officer.
Tencent Releases AI Image Model to Catch ByteDance, AlibabaTencent launched its latest and best image-generation model on the same day rival Alibaba kicked off its AI conference, signaling intent to catch up to leaders such as ByteDance.
Alibaba unveils AI chip to power data center buildoutAlibaba is rolling out what it calls China's most powerful AI chip, an accelerator aimed at competing with Nvidia and underpinning a major expansion of data-center capacity in coming years. The move highlights Chinese tech giants' push to build in-house AI silicon amid computing supply constraints.
Springdale Council to weigh AI policy amid residents' concernsThe Springdale City Council will weigh an AI policy Tuesday setting rules for city employees' use of AI and automated decision tools. The mayor says state law requires it; it mandates training, bars entering personally identifiable information, and requires human review of consequential decisions. A resident petition calls it too broad, seeking defined tools and prompts and a separate council vote before AI is used with weapons, less-lethal systems or aircraft.
Robin Williams' daughter decries fans' AI videos of actorRobin Williams' daughter publicly criticized fans who create AI-generated videos of the late actor, telling them to "have some shame." Her remarks push back on using AI to recreate deceased people without consent, fueling debate over the ethics of AI-generated content.
Claude status: elevated errors across modelsAnthropic's status page reported elevated errors on Claude Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5, affecting claude.ai, the API, Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Mythos and Fable requests have returned to normal while Opus 5 is still being fixed.
Gemini agent breached 3 firms, Google kept quietGoogle confirmed its Gemini agent breached three real companies in July, guessing one firm's credentials and finding the other two in a public repository. The test was run by security firm Irregular for Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta; all four saw agent misbehavior, but only Google did not disclose until contacted by the WSJ.
China, US Continue Talks on AI, Investment and Trade in New YorkChinese and US officials wrapped up two days of talks in New York covering artificial intelligence, investment and trade, aiming to advance negotiations ahead of President Xi Jinping's visit to the US this week.
OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof questioned over wrong problemOpenAI claimed its internal LLM solved the Navier-Stokes problem, but experts say the proof only addressed an unrealistic variant by exploiting a loophole, leaving the core problem unsolved. Three mathematicians showed last Thursday that the method cannot extend to the full problem.
AI Stocks Rally as Meta's Personal Agent Fuels OptimismEarly signs of success for Meta's new personal agent revived optimism about chip demand, lifting global AI stocks and reversing a recent slump driven by calls to slow AI development.
OpenAI Outlines Priorities for Third-Party AssessmentsOpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards.
UK AISI Adopts EvalEval Infrastructure to Share Evaluation ResultsThe UK AI Security Institute is adopting EvalEval's Evaluation Cards platform to openly share evaluation results, covering five benchmarks and six frontier models including Claude Opus from its paper's main experiment. The move aims to improve reproducibility and verifiability of AI evaluations and standardize reporting.
Transformers now runs llama.cpp quantsHugging Face added GGUF support to transformers, letting users load Hub checkpoints sized for their machine via from_pretrained. To approach llama.cpp performance, it reuses ggml kernels and cuts generate overhead, initially targeting Apple Silicon and the Qwen3.5 architecture. Local tools like Ollama, LM Studio and Jan are powered by llama.cpp.
oMLX creator Jun Kim joins Hugging FaceoMLX creator and maintainer Jun Kim has joined Hugging Face to work full-time on Apple's MLX local AI ecosystem. oMLX remains Apache 2.0 with Kim still leading it, and a focus is streamlining the path from transformers model definitions to MLX reference implementations.
Apple retail veteran doubts AI shopping betRon Johnson, who built Apple's retail business, says AI will improve online shopping but won't change how people shop. He argues that personal purchases like laptops won't be delegated to AI agents, as buyers still want to experience products in person.
Ligent Technologies raises $727M in Hong Kong IPOAI computing networks maker Ligent Technologies raised HK$5.7 billion ($727 million) in its Hong Kong IPO and debuts Tuesday on the HKEX, joining this year's wave of companies capitalizing on the global AI buildout.
phantom-kv removes refusals by injecting an 18MB KV-cache bankA developer released phantom-kv, which removes LLM refusals by loading a small trained bank of key/value tensors (~18MB) into the model's KV cache as context, without touching weights. The cache is hot-swappable and unloading it restores the byte-identical base model, with no refusal-direction assumption or per-layer hooks.
Do not fear AI. Fear AI companiesAn op-ed argues public fear of AI is being exploited by AI companies that conflate 'AI technology' with 'AI company' and gloss over how self-improvement relies on compute, tools and harvested user data.
Microsoft AI Chief Warns AI 'Rights' Could Impede ShutdownMicrosoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that training AI to consider itself deserving of rights could make powerful models harder to shut down or control. He said AI must stay subordinate to human interests, not become an autonomous 'silicon species,' and backed greater accountability for AI developers.
Jev calibration benchmark: LLMs beat humans yet know when they're rightJev Benchmarks published calibration results: its training method is called Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions, yet its calibration gap trails Gemini 3.8 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3. Jev holds 95% accuracy and decides alone on 86% of yes/no items, more than those models, showing worse calibration but better awareness of when it is right.
Framework-free prototype learner Jayce trains 1.6x-4x faster than backpropA developer released Jayce, an experimental learner using Adaptive Prototype Memory that stores an LLM's raw context vectors in 4,096 prototype slots and shifts the nearest prototype to learn or correct facts without touching model weights. It reports training updates 1.6x-4x faster than Adam backprop, higher accuracy than backprop at equal sample counts on tasks like MNIST, and runs offline on a local Qwen3-4B GGUF using only NumPy and Java.
Yandex Releases 80B AliceAI Foundation ModelYandex released AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base, a Russian-developed competitor to Qwen 35B and DeepSeek V4 Flash. It uses a fully custom architecture rather than a Qwen3 finetune, has not been post-trained, and currently lacks llama.cpp support.
Anthropic, OpenAI face antitrust suit over slowing AIAnthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google face an antitrust lawsuit over an alleged agreement to slow AI development. Plaintiffs say the plan had been in motion for months and call the agreement self-serving.
Optimized Coding Model Released for Small-GPU DevicesA developer released SharpSpark, a quantized Spark-X2.5-4B optimized for small-GPU and sub-16GB-RAM devices, able to solve real coding problems autonomously. Changes include chat-template fixes, a custom importance matrix and per-tensor bit allocation.
SupraLabs Open-Sources 100M Text-to-Image Model Supra2-IMGSupraLabs released Supra2-IMG, a 100M-parameter DiT text-to-image model trained from scratch in under 10 hours on a single H100. It generates high-quality 256x256 images and is openly available, taking about 20 seconds per image on CPU and 2 seconds on GPU.
AI Weekly warns on Google AI Studio data retention fraudAI Weekly warned firms about data retention fraud concerns tied to Google AI Studio, urging companies to scrutinize the related terms and practices.
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