Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI into question. Last week ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, released an AI video-generating tool called Seedance 2.0 which produces high-quality film-like clips from text…
The fight between the US government and Anthropic is no longer a contract negotiation dispute. It is a clash over killer robots and mass surveillance – and over who decides how artificial intelligence is used in war. At the centre is a blunt question: can a private AI company refuse to let its systems be…
A standoff between one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent artificial intelligence companies and the United States military came to a head this week, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refusing to bend to Pentagon pressure over how its AI technology can be used in national security operations, essentially for AI-guided weapons imn war. Anthropic CEO Dario…
A new front has opened in the global AI race, and this time the issue is not innovation but theft, national security and geopolitical rivalry. Anthropic has publicly accused three Chinese AI firms –DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — of orchestrating what it described as coordinated “distillation attacks” on its flagship model, Claude. The claims…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is eroding the very capabilities young professionals need to remain valuable in a machine-automated era. That is the real challenge facing graduates entering the workforce. It is not simply a case of AI destroying jobs – though it is – but that it is undermining our cognitive and interpersonal skills. The numbers…
The US military used Claude, the artificial intelligence model developed by a San Francisco-based company, Anthropic, in the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Many AI companies are building custom tools for the US military, most of which are available only on unclassified networks typically used…
Chinese AI start-up Zhipu AI said it would step up efforts next year in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) while continuing to open source its AI models after its initial public offering. In 2026 “we’re going to contribute more substantially to the AGI journey,” Zheng Qinkai, a researcher at the company, which markets…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that “set new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities”. The new reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking, was the most…
TikTok parent ByteDance has pulled the plug on US technology firm Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models on its Singapore-based coding app Trae after the American AI firm began restricting services to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world. Trae confirmed in a post published to its official Discord channel on Wednesday that it had discontinued access…
Last year, startup founder Harpaul Sambhi made an unusual request to his wealth manager: He asked to have 10% of his portfolio returned to him. It wasn’t for a flashy sports car or a down payment on a house. Sambhi had something different in mind: a contest. He wanted to pit his human wealth manager…