Global AI Race Heats Up Amidst Chip Sanctions and Open-Source Advancements

"Every thing that happens is either endurable or not. If it is endurable, then endure it; if it is unendurable, then why worry about it?" - Epictetus

⚡ Tech News

  • U.S. charges two Chinese nationals for illegally shipping Nvidia AI chips to China - CNBC
  • Custom AI Workflows for Enterprise Creative Teams | Stability AI Solutions - Stability AI
  • Six months after DeepSeek’s breakthrough, China speeds on with AI - The Economist
  • AMD Gives Solid AI Forecast - Bloomberg.com
  • AI is already impacting the labor market, starting with young tech workers, Goldman economist says - CNBC
  • A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era - The New York Times
  • OpenAI open weight models available today on AWS - About Amazon
  • OpenAI takes on Meta and DeepSeek with free and customisable AI models - The Guardian
  • Claude Opus 4.1 - Anthropic.com
  • Two Chinese nationals charged with exporting Nvidia AI chips to China - BBC
  • AMD Data Center Results Disappoint, Shares Slump - Reuters.com
  • Anthropic Unveils More Powerful Model Ahead of GPT-5 Release - Bloomberg.com
  • AMD Gives Solid Forecast, Showing Strength of Demand for AI - Mint
  • OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 - Wired.com
  • Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ‘rampant theft’ of Australian content to train AI - The Guardian
  • OpenAI’s open‑source model: gpt‑oss on Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry - Microsoft Azure
  • Qwen-Image: A Powerful Open-Source AI Image Generator - Venturebeat.com
  • Who gets cheap flights and hotel upgrades? AI will decide. - The Washington Post
  • I’ve spent 30 years trying to harness AI to fight cancer. I’m dismayed by the AI pseudo-revolution - STAT
  • Meet your new AI coding teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions - The Keyword
  • Top Analyst Warn AMD AI Hype May Outpace Reality - Yahoo Finance

🚀 Product Launches

  • Genie 3: A new frontier for world models.
  • gpt-oss: Push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models.

📈 Market News

  • Stock market today: Dow jumps 500 points, S&P 500, Nasdaq rally in bounce back from Friday sell-off - Yahoo Finance
  • S&P 500: $6,299.19 (-0.49%)
  • Nikkei: ¥40,794.86 (+0.60%)

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