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
Authorities in the US state of Wisconsin have opened a homicide investigation after the shooting death of a man by a police officer. The police chief of Madison, Wisconsin, told reporters Thursday that he would cooperate with state investigators. “We will not hide from any aspect of this investigation,” John Patterson said. Police said Corey
England and Australia should be open to the idea of playing a Test match in India to help generate interest in the format, says Cricket Australia’s chief executive. Traditionally, the two teams only meet in Test cricket as part of an Ashes series, which is played home and away, and is hosted by each country
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
The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the largest open-weight large language model, have started a debate that combines two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology. OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, went so far as to argue that the US
Every once in a while, a Chinese company releases a new AI model and Americans freak out. That’s what happened last week when China’s Moonshot AI unveiled the Kimi K3, which surpassed a number of notable benchmarks. By most accounts, the Kimi K3 rivals some leading US models for a fraction of the cost. The