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Moonshot AI recently released Kimi K3, a more advanced open-weight large language model that it said outperforms all rivals except for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on overall capability.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2026
Can Moonshot¡¯s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?
If you¡¯re calling Kimi K3 a new ¡°DeepSeek moment,¡± it only means that you haven¡¯t been paying attention.
Chinese artificial intelligence models are rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley and creating a "death zone" for anyone without frontier-pushing technology or market-breaking pricing.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 4, 2026
China¡¯s AI blitz creates ¡®death zone¡¯ for rival U.S. model makers
The debut of five models in eight weeks shows Chinese developers approaching or in some cases surpassing the U.S. pioneers that are commonly held up as frontier AI leaders.
The Hangzhou-based company is looking to add one gigawatt worth of compute in Ulanqab, about 350 kilometers northwest of Beijing
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 1, 2026
DeepSeek is developing massive AI data center in Inner Mongolia
The ambitious move in computing infrastructure shows the startup can compete with the leading AI models of Silicon Valley.
DeepSeek's first financing deal in June raised $7 billion for the Chinese artificial intelligence lab.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 27, 2026
DeepSeek said to have told backers of funding pause after viral posts
The suspension stemmed in part from its founder¡¯s frustration over online reports about his comments on U.S.-Chinese AI competition to investors, sources say.
An American soldier demonstrates how to fly a drone during a training exercise at a U.S. military facility in Hohenfels, Germany, on April 30.
COMMENTARY
Jul 8, 2026
America¡¯s battlefield dominance is under serious threat
The U.S. still possesses the most capable military, but its ability to dominate a battlefield is under threat due to the rapid evolution of warfare.
DeepSeek is designing its own chip for inference, the stage of artificial intelligence computing in which a trained model generates responses for users, ?sources said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 8, 2026
China¡¯s DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say
If successful, DeepSeek¡¯s expansion into semiconductor development would mark a major strategic shift for a company widely hailed in China as the country¡¯s AI ?champion.
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer behind the Kimi chatbot, is emerging as one of the best-funded Chinese artificial intelligence research labs.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 8, 2026
China¡¯s Moonshot AI seeks $30 billion value in new funding talks
This is the third round of financing in six months for the Beijing-based company, which is emerging as one of the best-funded Chinese AI research labs.
An attendee tries a robot eye-hand coordination tool at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, China, in April.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2026
China¡¯s long march to technological supremacy
No wonder the World Intellectual Property Organization now ranks China among the world¡¯s most innovative economies ¡ª especially in terms of knowledge and technology outputs.
DeepSeek¡¯s R1 breakthrough helped trigger a frenetic year in AI, but Alibaba¡¯s move toward proprietary models is now raising concerns that China¡¯s open-source shift may be slowing.
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2026
Why Beijing can¡¯t quit ¡®open¡¯ AI
The shift away from open source may be driven by the need for companies to make money, but it¡¯s unlikely to happen all at once.
DeepSeek has unveiled preview versions of a long-awaited new flagship model called V4, which costs less than many alternatives to use but doesn¡¯t meaningfully narrow the U.S. lead in AI capabilities.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 25, 2026
DeepSeek¡¯s long-awaited new model fails to narrow U.S. lead in AI
DeepSeek unveiled the V4 Flash and V4 Pro series on Friday, touting top-tier performance in coding benchmarks and big advancements in reasoning and agentic tasks.
Researchers evaluated five popular artificial intelligence chatbots by asking 10 questions each across five health categories. About 50% of the responses were deemed problematic, including almost 20% that were highly problematic.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 15, 2026
AI chatbots give misleading medical advice 50% of the time, study finds
The chatbot¡¯s answers were often delivered with confidence, though none produced a fully complete and accurate reference list in response to any prompt, the researchers said.
Despite reports and rumors about its imminent release, DeepSeek's next-generation "V4" model is nowhere in sight.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 9, 2026
Waiting for DeepSeek: new model to test China¡¯s AI ambitions
The long-awaited V4 model has yet to appear, stoking speculation over China¡¯s AI progress and whether Huawei chips can power a true Nvidia alternative.
Participants line up to install OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, outside the Baidu offices in Beijing on March 17.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2026
There¡¯s method to China¡¯s OpenClaw madness
It arrived at exactly the right moment for China¡¯s AI sector. After months of brutal price wars, it gave model builders a reason to charge more for tokens.
The Deepseek chatbot interface is displayed on a smartphone in Shanghai in January. The practice of artificial intelligence distillation first drew significant scrutiny in 2025 after DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model. The release prompted Microsoft and OpenAI to investigate whether the Chinese startup had improperly exfiltrated large amounts of data from the U.S. firms' models to create R1.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 7, 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google cooperate to fend off Chinese bids to clone models
The U.S. firms are concerned some users are creating imitation versions of their products that could undercut them on price and siphon away customers.
AI-generated video is now good enough to monetize, with China¡¯s Kuaishou showing how focused, paid tools can scale globally while amplifying deepfake and copyright risks.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2026
Chinese AI videos used to look fake. Now they look like money.
In China, AI video is doing something else that once looked unlikely: making money.
A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared ?anonymously on a developer platform last week was revealed to be from Chinese smartphone and electric vehicle giant Xiaomi, and not DeepSeek as initially thought.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 19, 2026
Mystery AI model suspected to be DeepSeek V4 is revealed to be from Xiaomi
The model, called Hunter Alpha, surfaced ?on an AI gateway platform on March 11 without any developer attribution and was later described as a ¡°stealth model.¡±
Microsoft is investing 5.4 billion South African rand ($330 million) to expand its cloud and AI capacity in the country by the end of next year, and it also has plans to build a geothermal-powered data center in Kenya.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 12, 2026
Microsoft¡¯s Copilot AI goes head-to-head with China¡¯s DeepSeek in Africa
The U.S. technology giant is making a push for more Africans to adopt its artificial-intelligence tools in the world¡¯s youngest and fastest-growing population.
Claude shows how powerful but costly frontier AI can be, illustrating why companies like Anthropic may be undermined by their own expensive innovation.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2026
AI leaders may spend billions only to lose the market
Each unit of intelligence gets cheaper ¡ª but overall, intelligence has never cost more.
Instead of worrying about disruption, investors in China are chasing perceived winners, drawn by AI¡¯s growth prospects and its potential to drive cost savings for end users.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 22, 2026
China defies global ¡®AI scare trade¡¯ as investors chase winners
One key reason for the divergence in investor focus is China¡¯s relatively insulated competitive landscape.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes a group photo with leaders of artificial intelligence companies at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 20, 2026
India chases ¡®DeepSeek moment¡¯ with homegrown AI models
Building custom AI tools could bring benefits to the world¡¯s most populous nation even in the absence of a breakthrough.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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