New York's RAISE Act forces frontier AI firms into first US state compliance regime
New York is standing up the country's first operational state-level compliance apparatus for frontier AI developers, combining mandatory registration, incident-reporting deadlines, and the specter of an emergency "kill switch" in a framewor…
Xiaomi's $2.6M training run ties frontier closed models, resets open-weight ceiling
A consumer-electronics company just matched the benchmark ceiling that the most expensive proprietary labs occupy, and it did so for a reported training cost that rounds to a rounding error on their R&D budgets. Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro scor…
US Proposes AI Incident Alert System With China
The United States has proposed an AI incident notification mechanism with China for events that could affect national security, according to reports citing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent . The proposal, described as an AI-era equivalent o…
Alibaba cuts Qwen image model to 7B parameters, folds generation and editing into one checkpoint
Alibaba's Qwen Team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026, releasing a unified text-to-image generation and editing model whose visual generation component uses 7 billion parameters across 32 single-stream diffusion transformer…
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RANKED · 11 THIS DAYBritish Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge shooting, alleges ChatGPT safety failures
British Columbia filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco federal court on Monday, alleging the company's failure to alert law enforcement about a shooter's ChatGPT activity enabled a mass shooting that killed eigh…
OpenAI seats math advisory group at IAS but bars it from slowing research
OpenAI on Monday formed an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to help coordinate the release of results from the company's accelerating…
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut API prices 50%, close alignment gap with Astra
OpenAI on Tuesday released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, expanding the GPT-6 generation with two models that halve API token prices relative to their GPT-5.6 predecessors while posting sharp gains on the company's internal alignment evaluations…
xAI cuts Grok pricing with 4.7 release, lands GitHub Copilot integration
xAI released Grok 4.7, pricing the model at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens . The company describes Grok 4.7 as its most powerful model for coding and knowledge work . The model rolled out instantly to GitHub C…
Alibaba taps Dayiheng Liu to lead Qwen after months of leadership vacuum
Alibaba Group Holding appointed senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as head of its Qwen large language model project, filling a leadership role that had been vacant for more than half a year following successive departures of technical leads…
OpenAI calls for US-led global AI standards, flags RSI control risks
OpenAI published a set of proposals for safety and security in frontier AI development, calling for the United States to lead an international effort to establish global AI standards . The proposals, posted in a blog on Monday, center on a…
DeepSeek bets next-model training on Huawei chips due Q4 2026 or Q1 2027
DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that training the company's next models on Huawei Technologies and other domestic accelerators is among DeepSeek's largest strategic priorities, according to reporting by the Information summarized…