🐉 China wants to run AI
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🐉 China Wants to Be the AI Main Character
- At a Shanghai tech conference, President Xi Jinping pitched a new global AI order, promising to share open-source AI with developing nations. Then 29 countries signed up for a "World AI Cooperation Organization" - HQ'd in Shanghai, obviously.
- This is a direct play to out-influence the US by teaming up with the Global South and writing the rulebook themselves. It's giving geopolitical chess.
🚀 Moonshot's Kimi K3 Says "US Lead? Never Heard of Her"
- Chinese startup Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3 - a chonky 2.8 TRILLION-parameter open-weight model with a 1-million token context window. It's going toe-to-toe with Claude and GPT-5.6 for wayyy less money.
- The whole "Chinese AI is months behind" narrative just got shattered. Open-weight models are catching up FAST, and your wallet loves to see it.
🛑 Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Is Late (Again)
- Google is months behind on Gemini 3.5 Pro because the model's coding skills just aren't it. Add internal drama and staff defecting to OpenAI, and you've got a delay sandwich.
- Google used to be THE AI leader. Now competitors keep shipping while Google's stuck in the group project nobody finished. Bestie, that's not the vibe.
🍏 Apple Intelligence Finally Gets Into China
- Apple got the green light from Chinese regulators to launch generative AI in the country - by teaming up with Alibaba and Baidu to jam the Qwen model into iPhones.
- China is a MASSIVE market for Apple, and shipping AI features there could keep iPhone sales from flatlining. Survival core.
🎮 Roblox Lets You Build Games by Typing Vibes
- Roblox's new mobile feature "Build" lets anyone make a basic game with text prompts - no coding required. The AI handles gameplay, characters, and sound all by itself.
- Game design just got democratized... which also means the platform might get flooded with low-quality AI slop. Chaos incoming.
⚡ NotebookLM Gets a New Name, DoorDash Gets an Agent
- Google rebranded NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and gave it a cloud tool that runs code for real data analysis. Also, DoorDash launched dd-cli, letting an AI agent hunt deals and order your lunch.
- AI is quietly infiltrating every app you touch - from crunching data to yeeting a burrito to your door. It's like... everywhere now.
🛠️ Google's AI Mode Wants to Do Your Chores
- Google's AI Mode now connects to Instacart, Canva, and YouTube - build a grocery list and send it straight to your cart. And Google Vids can now make a digital avatar that looks and sounds like you for presentations.
- Google wants its AI to stop answering questions and start doing tasks. Also a deepfake of you giving your own boring work presentation. Cool. Cool cool cool.
⚖️ Indonesia Says "Pay Up" for AI Training Data
- Indonesia is drafting a law forcing platforms to pay for news content used in AI training. Bonus: AI-generated work only gets copyright with meaningful human input. Tech giants like Google are big mad.
- Indonesia could be the first Southeast Asian country to seriously regulate AI copyright - setting a huge precedent for how creators get paid worldwide.
📈 Wall Street's AI FOMO vs. The Capex Hangover
- Foreign investors are still pouring billions into US tech stocks out of pure AI FOMO. But experts warn Big Tech might slow down its wild data-center spending by next year.
- If the chip gold rush cools off, the entire stock market could get a serious case of the wobbles. This. Could. Get. Messy.
🚗 Micron Puts AI Brains Into Your Car
- Chipmaker Micron signed big deals with auto suppliers Qualcomm and Harman to provide the memory and storage chips that power AI features in modern vehicles.
- Cars are basically computers on wheels now, and the demand for high-powered AI chips is about to skyrocket. Vroom vroom, RAM edition.
👨⚖️ Judge Catches the DOJ Citing a FAKE AI Case
- A federal judge in Michigan called out the US Justice Department for citing a fake legal case in an immigration filing - apparently the lawyers let an AI tool hallucinate the case law.
- Sir, this is the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. If top government lawyers are getting cooked by AI hallucinations, ALWAYS double-check your outputs. I-
💰 Fora and Elorian Cash Massive AI Checks
- AI travel agency Fora raised $60M at a $1 billion unicorn valuation (its AI helps agents plan trips faster). Meanwhile, visual AI startup Elorian bagged $55M at a $300M valuation - before even launching a product (??).
- Investors are STILL writing giant checks, sometimes for companies with zero product. The vibes-based funding era continues.
🤖 AMI Labs Refuses to Say "AGI"
- Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of AMI Labs, says his company flat-out refuses to use buzzwords like "AGI" or "superintelligence." Instead, they're building world models for physical robots.
- While everyone else chases vague super-smart-AI dreams, AMI Labs is just trying to make robots actually useful. Refreshingly not delusional!
🏀 OpenAI Is Selling a $70 Basketball, No Notes
- OpenAI launched a merch store featuring a $230 keyboard and - I kid you not - a $70 rubber ChatGPT basketball. It's part of a campaign reminding people that creativity happens off-screen too.
- OpenAI is speedrunning its way into being a lifestyle brand. Nothing says "away from screens" like a $70 ball with a chatbot logo on it. Bestie.