OpenAI uncovers global Chinese intimidation operation through one official’s use of ChatGPT

A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating ...

Are China’s ‘AI tigers’ cheating? US rival Anthropic alleges some are

Top United States artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is accusing three prominent Chinese AI labs of illegally extracting capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own, claiming it raises ...

China’s latest AI is so good it’s spooked Hollywood. Will its tech sector pump the brakes?

Over the past week, a slew of cinematic videos of celebrities and characters in absurd situations have gone viral online, with one commonality –– they were created using a new artificial intelligence ...
CNN

Elon Musk is betting Tesla’s future isn’t about cars at all

Tesla dominated the electric vehicle industry by the mid-2010s with sleek, fast cars that helped combat the public perception that EVs were severely limited by short ranges. Now the company – and its ...
CNN

Tesla scraps Model S and Model X to build robots

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who turned an upstart electric vehicle maker into an industry-changing powerhouse, is pulling the plug on the two models that helped get him there, as he struggles with another ...
STAT

DeepMind releases AlphaGenome source code, aiming to improve its AI predictions of gene regulation

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
ZDNet

Move over, Claude: Moonshot's new AI model lets you vibe-code from a single video upload

Moonshot debuted its open-source Kimi K2.5 model on Tuesday. It can generate web interfaces based solely on images or video. It also comes with an "agent swarm" beta feature. Alibaba-backed Chinese AI ...
TechCrunch

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The ...
CNN

Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear of phone checks

These recent WhatsApp messages of a Venezuelan family – who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals – underscore the caution civilians are taking in their daily conversations, on social media ...
Wired

How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic

Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...
Game Rant

Rumor: New Switch 2 Hardware Revision Leaked

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...