Powerful AI models that companies can download, run and adapt are becoming a serious competitive force against the closed systems offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. A new wave of open-weight models from China, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8, has sharpened a debate in Washington and Silicon Valley over whether open models …
AI-generated books are rapidly expanding Amazon’s catalogue, often with little disclosure to customers and limited evidence of human authorship. Kashmir Hill reports in The New York Times that an AI generated biography of her appeared on Amazon without her knowledge or participation. The 90 page book, titled “The Biography of Kashmir Hill,” mixed public facts …
Anthropic’s coding assistant Claude Code is finding an unexpected audience: people who never write a single line of code. Nolen Jonker writes for XDA Developers that the tool has become their most-used productivity app this year, simply by pointing it at a messy folder of files instead of a codebase. The idea is simple. Jonker …
Moonshot AI, the Beijing based startup backed by Alibaba, has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model the company calls in an official blog post the world’s first open 3T-class model. The system combines two new architectural components, Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, with a 1 million token context window and native vision …
Imagine pointing an AI tool at a folder of interview transcripts on your PC and asking for a structured summary. Instead of copying and pasting text into a browser window, you watch as the tool plans the needed steps, analyzes the contents, and writes a new document directly to your hard drive. This is one …
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has released its first major language model under an open source license. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model, called Inkling, targets enterprises that want to run AI on their own servers while keeping costs low and avoiding ideological filtering. …
Craig Mod talks with Dan Shipper for Every’s YouTube channel about rebuilding his entire software stack with AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude, while drawing a hard line at using the technology to write. Mod, known for the newsletters Roden and Ridgeline and books including Kissa by Kissa, used to pay around $67,000 a year …
Max Spero, CEO of Pangram, writes in a company blog post that his firm’s AI detection tool has scanned over one million social media posts since April 2026, revealing how deeply generative AI has penetrated online writing. Users of Pangram’s Chrome extension can opt in to share anonymous scan data, and the resulting dataset covers …
Canva has launched Canva Code 2.0, a major update to its AI coding tool that lets anyone build interactive websites and apps from plain-language prompts, then edit the result like a normal Canva design. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the feature is now open to all 265 million monthly users, including those on Canva’s …
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a systematic theft of trade secrets to build its own hardware device. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu as defendants, alongside …