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US-China AI dialogue advances ahead of Xi-Trump summit

US and Chinese negotiators made progress on AI and trade ahead of President Xi's state visit to Washington, with Treasury Secretary Bessent calling the engagement successful and both sides preparing for the high-level summit.

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AI reshapes creative industries as studios and designers navigate shifting tides

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra fails simulated cliff-edge safety test while rivals pass

Grok Bot ecosystem expands with offline video index and Money integration

Nvidia Jensen Huang dismisses AI extinction fears as zero-percent risk.

NVIDIA spotlights five companies using its AI platforms for clean energy projects

Amazon blocks Meta Muse AI agent from shopping platform

Apple settles Siri AI lawsuit for $250 million over failed AI upgrade

Google ships Googlebook laptop integrating Gemini across desktop experience

Alibaba Qwen releases Qwen-Image-2.1 image generation model with open weights

Meta's LeCun argues current AI architectures won't achieve human-level AGI

Nous Research Hermes Agent gains traction as everyday AI agent tool

AI alignment must prioritize training on aligned data sets

AI researchers debate full recursive self-improvement feasibility

Alibaba Qwen releases Qwen-Image-2.1 with generation and editing in one checkpoint

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Chinese researchers simulate drone attack vulnerabilities on suspension bridges

Pirate Face rescues LLM models from deletion, gains traction on Hacker News.

Asia investors demand AI revenue proof over mere exposure

World model companies keeping development plans secret from data partners.

Chinese researchers plot path to 3-nm chips using older lithography tools

Simon Willison releases llm-keys-ui plugin for secure API key handling in agent sessions

China's AI sector adapts to US chip restrictions via cloud workarounds.

Vocci launches $249 AI ring for meeting note-taking.

Chinese chipmaker Hygon expands from data centers into robotics chips.

Datasette releases datasette-auth-github 1.0 plugin.

Pacing AI frontier may help labs reduce model overhang

Workers report being pressured to ship AI-generated code without review at major companies

AI industry debates whether slowdown pledge is genuine.

Lossless-memory brings non-summarizing AI memory to personal use

ScrollEd turns textbooks into Instagram-like feed with AI-generated content.

UX Collective explores designing AI interfaces for readers

Canva takes on Adobe with Affinity 3.3 update blurring creative tool lines

Flock cuts workforce through employee buyout program.

Chinese woman uses AI to impersonate doctor and mother in US$25,000 scam

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launches on Amazon Bedrock in commercial open-weight test