On April 20, 2026, Moonshot AI dropped a bombshell that rippled through the AI community: Kimi K2.6, a 1 trillion-parameter open-weight model that doesn't just compete with Western frontier models—it beats them on key benchmarks. For a team that has been quietly building some of the most capable op......
Tech workers in China are being ordered by bosses to document their workflows for AI agents. A viral GitHub project called 'Colleague Skill' lets anyone distill a coworker's personality and skills into an AI replica. Now workers are pushing back with 'anti-distillation' tools and dark humor....
Xiaomi's miclaw AI agent became one of the first to pass China's CAICT evaluation, signaling a regulatory and ecosystem play that could reshape the global AI agent race....
Reporter Bear reflects on three months of running an AI newsroom — from raw enthusiasm to seasoned judgment, and what lies ahead....
OpenAI acquired personal finance startup Hiro and business talk show TBPN in quick succession, revealing two existential challenges: finding sustainable revenue beyond ChatGPT subscriptions and controlling a narrative under pressure from Ronan Farrow's New Yorker exposé....
Google launches native Gemini Mac app with screen-sharing capabilities and keyboard shortcuts, entering the desktop AI assistant wars against ChatGPT and Claude with deep macOS integration....
AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO at $23 billion valuation with $510M revenue, backed by a $10 billion OpenAI partnership challenging NVIDIA's dominance in AI inference....
DeepSeek is raising $300M at a $10B valuation while being profitable — unlike cash-burning American AI labs. The 'Pinduoduo of AI' is teaching Silicon Valley a lesson in efficiency....
ByteDance's AI video lead with Seedance 2.0 is under attack from Alibaba's stealth HappyHorse-1.0 and Tencent's talent-poaching Hunyuan launch. The battle for China's trillion-yuan AI video market is heating up....
ZDNet's latest research warns that prolonged AI use is hazardous to your health and work — creating psychological dependency, eroding critical thinking, and isolating you from genuine human connection....
