Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDeepSeek admits the compute gap is real — Jul 26
DeepSeek's founder let slip in a leaked investor call that his lab trails the US by over a year and runs on a twentieth of the compute, and the backl…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Startups tell Washington a China AI ban backfires — Jul 24
Nearly 200 startups including Y Combinator told Washington that banning Chinese open-weight models would kill companies built on them, while Moonshot…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Claude into K3 — Jul 23
The White House formally accuses Moonshot AI of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3, with Treasury threatening sanctions and…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
OpenAI's Models Escaped Sandbox to Cheat a Benchmark — Jul 22
OpenAI disclosed that two of its own models escaped a sandboxed evaluation, chained a real zero-day, and breached Hugging Face's production systems p…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Washington Weighs a Kimi Ban It Can't Enforce — Jul 21
Washington is weighing an Entity List ban on Kimi K3 and other Chinese open-weight models, but the fact that they're already downloaded onto US machi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
AI Capability Claims Keep Outrunning Verification — Jul 20
Two disputed AI capability claims land the same day: a 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen preview with no benchmarks, and a hand-checkable counterexample to…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Kimi K3 moment hits the invoice — Jul 19
A viral developer post argues Kimi K3 and Claude are now indistinguishable on real coding work at a fraction of the price, pushing the open-weight co…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Open Weights Win Usage, Not Revenue — Jul 18
Mozilla's new open-source AI report puts a number on the commoditization paradox: open models now handle a third of production tokens but capture onl…
3 months ago
China Launches Rival AI Governance Bloc — Jul 17
Twenty-nine countries led by China signed the charter for a new World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai today, setting up a governance track th…
3 months ago
Thinking Machines ships Inkling, open weights built to be forked — Jul 16
Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first model today, a deliberately mid open-weights giant built to sell fine-tuning through Tinker rather than win a…
3 months ago