White House science adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest open-weight LLM available, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that are not authorized for export to China. “Large-scale covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing patented American technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,”
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Substack has launched a new feature that can show you which of your favorite newsletters are written with AI. This week, the writing and newsletter platform announced an integration with AI writing detection software Pangram that will allow users to scan posts, comments, and responses in the Substack app to see an estimate of how
Matt Damon said Jon Bernthal inspired the rest of the cast with a grueling scene early in production. Damon recalled that Bernthal was half submerged in freezing water in Morocco during the winter while filming a scene inside the Trojan Horse. “Jon was shaking, putting his hands together and pressing down to get the chills
As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments over what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch. There is talk that the Trump administration could try to ban them (although it has not yet acted on the idea). Meanwhile, proprietary model makers, particularly OpenAI and Anthropic, seem
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