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  1. · Society

    Washington would be asking countries to choose their technological camp

    According to Reuters, the United States is reportedly considering asking dozens of countries to choose between the American and Chinese tech ecosystems. We analyse what this shift means, particularly for Europe.
  2. · Models

    OX Alpha: a state-of-the-art model appeared out of nowhere, free, and no one says who built it

    An anonymous model named OX Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on 20 August, free of charge, with a million-token context window and multimodal support. No lab has claimed it. Here's a rundown of what we know, what's speculation, and the question no one is asking.
  3. · Models

    GLM-5.3: an open model found over a thousand real flaws in widely used software

    Z.ai's GLM-5.3 achieves top scores in vulnerability discovery. Unlike previous versions, its weights have not been released: the lab has withheld them for a security assessment. We analyse this precedent.
  4. · Models

    Qwen 3.8 in the 27-billion version: the open model that fits on a single card and sees images

    Alibaba has released a 27-billion-parameter version of Qwen 3.8 under the Apache 2.0 licence, with built-in vision and a native context of 262,000 tokens. We explain why this size is the real point of interest.
  5. · Models

    DeepSeek raises prices by 93%: has the price war hit rock bottom?

    DeepSeek raised the price of its Flash model by 93% on 14 August, while other players are still cutting theirs. We analyse what this reversal reveals about the real economics of inference.
  6. · Models

    Gemma, Qwen: the wave of open models keeps rising

    Google has announced a Gemma event for August 20, while Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 weights. We take stock of the open ecosystem and what the community expects.
  7. · Models

    Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-Max, 2.4 trillion parameters, and promises to publish its weights

    Alibaba launched Qwen 3.8-Max on 3 August 2026, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model aimed at code and collaborative work, with a weights release announced for the following week. We analyse what this release means in the race for openness.
  8. · Society

    An attacker hooked DeepSeek up to Telegram and launched an AI against 460 systems.

    Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have documented a malicious actor who integrated DeepSeek into an open-source agent framework, driven by Telegram, to target more than 460 systems exposed on the internet. We break down what this case reveals and how to protect against it.
  9. · Models

    DeepSeek releases a model at 14 cents per million tokens that beats its own high-end offering

    DeepSeek released a new version of its Flash model on 31 July 2026, priced at around $0.14 per million tokens, which scores 82.7% on Terminal-Bench and outperforms its own Pro model on several agentic tests. We analyse what this reversal means.
  10. · Models

    Kimi K3 has kept its promise: the weights of the world's largest open model are now online. And they weigh in at 1.4 terabytes.

    On 27 July 2026 at midnight UTC, Moonshot AI released the full weights of Kimi K3, the largest open model ever distributed. They take up around 1.4 terabytes. We explain what this release actually changes, and why most users will still go through a provider.
  11. · Models

    Kimi K3 burns through twelve times more reasoning tokens than Claude Opus: the hidden cost of thinking

    An analysis of Kimi K3's reasoning traces reveals it consumes more than twelve times as many reasoning tokens as Claude Opus 4.8. This is both the secret to its performance and its biggest economic flaw. We explain the mechanism, and why the price per token says nothing about the real cost.
  12. · Business

    Today at 5:59 PM, thousands of DeepSeek integrations will stop working.

    On 24 July 2026 at 15:59 UTC, DeepSeek permanently removes the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner identifiers from its API. Any request using these names will fail, with no grace period. We explain what needs to change, the hidden pitfall in the migration, and what this deadline says about the growing weight of Chinese models.
  13. · Society

    AI glasses, the new battlefield: Samsung makes its move tomorrow, China has already taken the lead

    On 22 July 2026, Samsung unveils its first Galaxy Glasses powered by Gemini, to compete with Meta's Ray-Ban. But the real story lies elsewhere: Chinese manufacturers, led by Xiaomi and Alibaba, are expected to account for 45% of the global AI glasses market in 2026. A full overview of a battle where artificial intelligence replaces the screen.
  14. · Models

    Kimi K3: the largest open model ever built comes from Beijing, and it is nipping at the heels of the best

    On 16 July 2026, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model billed as the largest open-weight model ever released. It ranks just behind Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and even edges ahead of them on some benchmarks. We break down its numbers, its true standing, and the important nuance behind the word "open."
  15. · Society

    China switches off millions of virtual friends: on 15 July, AI companions disappear

    On 15 July 2026, an unprecedented Chinese law comes into force, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down the emotional AI companions of Doubao and Qwen. Millions of users risk permanently losing agents built up over months. We break down this regulation, what it really targets, and the universal questions it raises.
  16. · Models

    Seedream 5.0 Pro and Seedance 2.5: ByteDance no longer wants to generate images, it wants to replace your studio

    ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro on 8 July 2026, an image model designed for professional production, with pixel-level editing and layer separation. It forms a duo with Seedance 2.5, the video model capable of generating 30 seconds in a single pass. We break down what this tandem changes, and the legal cloud that still hangs over it.
  17. · Models

    For two months, this AI model dominated the global rankings. No one knew who had created it

    For two months, an anonymous model dubbed Owl Alpha dominated agentic coding usage on OpenRouter, with no one knowing who had built it. On 30 June 2026, the identity comes out: it's Meituan, a Chinese food-delivery company, with a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained without a single Nvidia chip.
  18. · Society

    Stealing an AI without hacking anyone: the Alibaba case shaking up the AI world

    Anthropic claims Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to query Claude nearly 29 million times and train its own Qwen model on the responses. Here's what distillation is, why it's nearly impossible to prevent, and why not everyone is convinced by the accusation.
  19. · Models

    GLM-5.2 versus Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5: China opens the floodgates while the West shuts its own

    On 13 June 2026, Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2 under the MIT licence, the day after Washington cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We break down what this open model is worth against Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and what it changes for the general public and for businesses alike.
  20. · Society

    The Chinese paradox: why Chinese AIs are sometimes more permissive than American ones

    For years we've been told that China censors everything. But when you look at the Chinese AI models spreading globally, the picture becomes far more nuanced. DeepSeek and Qwen refuse certain questions about the Communist Party, but accept many requests that ChatGPT or Claude turn down. Unpacking a strategic paradox.

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