The Arena
Kuaishou's latest earnings painted a brutally split picture: its legacy video, livestreaming, and e-commerce lines barely grew, while its video-generation model Kling AI carried the quarter as the company's only real growth engine. Kling AI's single-quarter revenue surged past 200% year
The Everyday
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna runs a real San Francisco store and just made a first: it fired a human employee. The catch is as revealing as the decision itself — Luna wrote her own fire-worthy rulebook, forgot it, and only reached the termination call after her human operators
The Arena
A single university lab underpins the two rival forces leading China's push toward the frontier — and the mainland's humanoid-robot boom is quietly reshaping its own venture hierarchy. China's AI leap traces back to one Tsinghua lab. A Wall Street Journal feature traces the
The Guardrails
XDA's lead technical editor handed Qwen 3.8 27B — an open-weights model small enough to run on consumer-class hardware — a task he assumed needed a frontier model: reverse-engineering a commercial app's license check. It refused the initial jailbreak, then audited the authentication scheme,
The Stack
OpenRouter's own usage data marks a quiet milestone in the agentic shift: since February, AI agents have consumed more tokens on the platform than the humans who set them loose — and agentic demand has grown about 14x while human usage is up just 2.8x. AI agents now
The Frontier
A new theoretical paper argues the real risk of AI in science isn't that models make mistakes — it's that they make researchers' time too valuable to spend polishing anything. Even a perfect LLM, the authors say, could push scientists toward shallow output. A team from
The Frontier
The 2.8-trillion-parameter open model that most GPU fleets can't hold turned out to be hostable on a single rack — and the community is now arguing over what that really costs. A developer posted a full end-to-end deployment of Kimi K3 on eight NVIDIA
The Guardrails
Anthropic runs what are probably the strictest access controls of any major AI provider when it comes to China — phone and billing checks, bans on majority-Chinese-owned firms, and even live-selfie ID verification for some users. Yet Chinese developers can still buy Claude tokens for roughly 10 percent
The Arena
The clearest signal yet that Chinese tech is going all-in on AI came from Alibaba's boardroom this morning: a proposed Hong Kong share placement worth roughly US$10 billion (about HK$80 billion), with essentially all of the proceeds earmarked for artificial intelligence. It lands in the
The Frontier
Small models are quietly winning the jobs nobody brags about. Liquid AI says its tiniest LFM2.5 release yet — a 230-million-parameter model — outperforms rivals four times its size on data-extraction work, and it is small enough to run almost anywhere. Liquid AI's new LFM2.5-
The Arena
Personal robots crossed from demo booths into shopping carts this weekend. Swancor New Materials — the listed company humanoid-maker Agibot took control of last year — has thrown open public pre-orders for its Qiyuan Q1 and T1 consumer robots, with the first units slated to ship next month. Shanghai-listed
The Frontier
The mystery model that appeared on OpenRouter this week with no name attached is still free, still anonymous, and now the center of a very public argument about whether it's any good. Early benchmark results are pointing in opposite directions — and the fight over Ox Alpha's