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Beijing probes DeepSeek and Moonshot over data routed to Claude

The Guardrails

Beijing probes DeepSeek and Moonshot over data routed to Claude

China's internet regulator has opened an investigation into two of the country's biggest AI labs — over the same allegations a US competitor levelled at them two weeks ago. The Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over alleged data leaks to Anthropic through its Claude models, and has questioned staff at both companies, The Information reported on Tuesday. The probe follows Anthropic's September 10 threat-intelligence report, which alleged that Moonshot s

AstroForge puts an AI in command of its next spacecraft

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AstroForge puts an AI in command of its next spacecraft

AstroForge spent two missions learning how hard it is to talk to a spacecraft. Its answer is to need the conversation less. AstroForge has built an in-house, transformer-based autonomy stack called Solo, and it plans to fly its first fully autonomous spacecraft in 2027 on the maiden launch of a Stoke Space rocket — a NASA-backed mission expected to gather scientific data about the Sun. The company is framing Solo as the fix for the constraint that killed its last mission: in 2025 it launched th

Inspur says one box now runs 2.8T Kimi K3 on 128 chips

The Frontier

Inspur says one box now runs 2.8T Kimi K3 on 128 chips

The largest open-weight model in existence has been given a machine that fits in one rack — and there is no Nvidia silicon inside it. What Inspur actually put on stage At the AI Computing Conference in Beijing on September 21, Inspur Information launched the Yuanbrain SD200 Ultra supernode alongside a second product, the Yuanbrain HC2000 multi-compute rack. The claim for the SD200 Ultra is compact: it runs Moonshot's Kimi K3 — 2.8 trillion total parameters, 104 billion active per token — on a

Stanford students found themselves AI-swapped in campus ads

The Everyday

Stanford students found themselves AI-swapped in campus ads

Three uses of AI landed within a day of each other: an institution that rewrote the identities of the people in its own marketing, a startup betting on the materials that come after silicon, and a platform joining a shared pipeline for catching child abuse material at scale. Stanford's housing and dining division used generative AI to change the race, gender and body shape of students appearing in its advertising, according to the campus paper that broke the story — and the university has not a

Lab-grown neurons gave a video model a 156,000-parameter edge

The Frontier

Lab-grown neurons gave a video model a 156,000-parameter edge

Two stories today: a Baltimore startup turned recordings of living brain cells into a shippable AWS product, and Chinese labs got a seat at the UN Security Council's AI table. The Biological Computing Company is now selling its neuron-derived optimizer through AWS — and the neurons are the least commercial part of it. TBC grows cortical cells on a silicon chip with 4,096 electrodes, feeds them image data as electrical pulses, records how the excitation spreads across the culture and fades, then

OPPO's 499-yuan AI pendant records your day from your collar

The Everyday

OPPO's 499-yuan AI pendant records your day from your collar

Two stories with the same shape today: a Chinese phone maker put a price on always-on ambient recording, while the enterprise security vendors spent the day selling controls for the AI their customers already use without asking. OPPO opened sign-ups for a 9.8-gram AI recorder you clip to your collar, at 499 yuan. The device, called 心力球 ("Heartball"), attaches to a shirt or lapel, records continuously through a rated 24-hour battery, and turns the day into structured notes — events split automat

Google's Intrinsic open-sources its robot control stack

The Stack

Google's Intrinsic open-sources its robot control stack

Two physical-AI stories landed on the same day, and together they draw the line the industry is converging on: the software layer is going free, and the sensing layer is going into the hands of one buyer. Alphabet's Intrinsic open-sourced Intrinsic Core, the runtime, SDK and real-time control framework it had been keeping in-house — an Apache-2.0 layer that handles trajectory adjustment mid-movement, 6-DoF pose estimation, collision-avoidance motion planning, grasp planning, simulation and visi

Aurora has 20 driverless trucks running and wants 200 by year-end

The Arena

Aurora has 20 driverless trucks running and wants 200 by year-end

Two stories today: driverless freight moves from demo to payroll, and JetBrains decides the agent era needs a landlord. Aurora Innovation is running 20 driverless trucks on Texas highways and says it will have 200 on the road by the end of the year, with positive free cash flow targeted for 2028. The company let CNBC ride along for three hours on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas, where its rigs haul freight with nobody in the cab, reading the road with lidar, radar and cameras. The pitc

UK's AI Security Institute staff signed off work with stress

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UK's AI Security Institute staff signed off work with stress

Two stories worth your attention: the people who test frontier models are taking the damage home, and China's domestic silicon just put a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model on a single machine. Multiple staff at the UK's AI Security Institute have been signed off work with stress and are undergoing counselling, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday — and the toll reaches past one agency. The FT says top researchers at AISI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind describe burnout and stress from

Firebird's Armenia AI factory lands 70,000 Nvidia chips by 2027

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Firebird's Armenia AI factory lands 70,000 Nvidia chips by 2027

A data center that doubles as a diplomatic instrument, and a quiet upgrade to the tool most people already use to run models on a laptop. Firebird's data center in Armenia is set to reach 300 megawatts and more than 70,000 Nvidia chips by the end of 2027 — hardware that Bloomberg reports the Trump administration agreed to let into the country as part of a wider diplomatic push. The San Francisco startup began operating the facility in August. Nvidia calls it the largest AI factory in the CIS r

Seven in ten sites waved a fake GPTBot straight through

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Seven in ten sites waved a fake GPTBot straight through

The cheapest credential-stuffing kit of 2026 does not need a bot farm. It needs you to trust a name. DataDome's annual bot report finds that spoofed AI crawlers walked past more than seven in ten websites, and that two-thirds of the sites it tested stopped none of the ten bot types it sent at them. The test ran in June: ten bot types, 21,491 sites, 15 industries, all requests sent from residential addresses in the US, Canada and France. Of those sites, 65.3% blocked nothing at all, and the sha

Baidu apologises in China's first AI defamation case — two years on

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Baidu apologises in China's first AI defamation case — two years on

A lawyer who searched his own name and found a criminal record that never existed finally got a written apology today. The reasoning behind the order is the part the industry should read. Baidu formally apologised in writing to Nanjing lawyer Li Xiaoliang on September 22, at the Nanjing Jiangbei New Area People's Court — the first time a Chinese court has forced a model operator to apologise for what its model said about a named person. The case began in September 2024, when Li searched his own

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