Global AI Race Heats Up Amidst Chip Sanctions and Open-Source Advancements
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⚡ 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
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- Nikkei: ¥40,794.86 (+0.60%)