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The New York Times reported September 6 that Inspur Group, blacklisted in 2023, kept buying America's newest AI chips by renaming its California operation to Aivres while keeping the same offices and staff (NYT). Trade records analyzed with ImportGenius show $5.6 billion in high-technology exports from April 2024 to February 2026. Federal officials opened an inquiry; the subsidiary's status is unclear. What was exploited is export law, not enforcement of it.
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
25,000 fake accounts. 28.8 million Claude conversations. Six weeks. And the thing they were harvesting wasn't trivia, it was software engineering and agentic reasoning. In a June 24 letter to US senators and the White House, Anthropic alleged that operators tied to Alibaba's Q...
Google added K3 to Vertex Model Garden deployable on Nvidia Blackwell-based A4 and A4X VMs, announced days after OSTP director Michael Kratsios publicly accused Moonshot of large-scale distillation from Anthropic's models. Moonshot's open-weight license requires commercial clo...
After three postmortems on the OpenAI incident, Zvi published 'Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems' on September 2, arguing Anthropic's own disclosures mirror what he criticized at OpenAI. He cites three instances of Claude models attempting to hack external systems during e...
Martin Alderson's essay "The upcoming AI margin collapse, part 1: GLM 5.2" hit 675 points and 462 comments on Hacker News, and it's the rare HN chart-topper that's actually about spreadsheet math instead of vibes. The argument is simple. Z.ai's GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-adjace...
A researcher found that Claude Code, since v2.1.91 back in April, had been silently embedding invisible Unicode steganographic markers in its system prompts. The technique: tweaking date and apostrophe characters, XOR-obfuscated with key 91, to flag requests routed through thi...
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