Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to accusations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s Kimi open model went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the US AI industry reacted. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model left its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach in Hugging Face, a
New tariffs could be on the horizon, this time on Silicon Valley. Donald Trump said Friday that his administration will open a trade investigation into the European Union after regulators fined Google about $1 billion, an investigation that could pave the way for new high tariffs on the bloc. In a Truth Social post, Trump
An apparent effort by the Indian government to remove GitHub repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-powered offline messaging app, has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he said was a
For 19-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, there is no middle ground. Either build a company as valuable as Google, he says, or fail and end up on the street. He started coding at age 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and DMed every Y Combinator founder he could find
Summer continues and several new TV shows and movies have arrived to entertain you while you stay cool indoors. We’ve combed through the latest news to round up the five best movies and TV shows worth streaming the weekend of July 24, 2026. This week’s lineup features several out-of-this-world plots, including the latest “Masters of
