InAgent achieves 90.2% on OSWorld: the computer-use agent gap narrows for the Chinese stack
A Chinese CUA becomes the first to surpass 90% on OSWorld. The gap with US frontier labs is now a harness gap, not a model gap.
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Laguna 118B runs on a DGX Spark, Inkling goes multimodal, K3 secures its commercial license: benchmarks and clauses recap #23
Three architectures to dissect side-by-side: Poolside's MoE 118B / 8B active on a single machine; Inkling's multimodal 975B / 41B, also released as 276B / 12B; and Kimi K3's 2.8T / 104B context with 1M tokens, whose commercial agreement clause could exclude US companies.
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Montage starts CXL 3.2 chip production - China gets a second memory-fabric supplier
Shanghai's Montage begins production of CXL 3.2 controllers - the memory-pooling fabric that reshapes AI-server economics gets a second Chinese supplier.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 14 18
CXMT closes in on LPDDR6 mass production at 12,800 Mbps - the Chinese memory step-up
ChangXin Memory Technologies nears mass production of 12,800 Mbps LPDDR6 mobile DRAM—a real technological leap for China's memory industry, months after its IPO surge.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 12 13
CXMT surges 500% on debut, tops Intel's market cap - Chinese memory reprices at cycle peak
Chinese memory maker CXMT jumped 471-500% on its Shanghai listing and - for a moment - its market cap surpassed Intel's. The market's message: HBM/DRAM is where the AI dollars land next.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 6 6
UK AISI and CAISI publish first joint cyber assessment of Kimi K3
The NIST website hosts a preliminary joint assessment by UK AI Safety Institute and CAISI (US) of Kimi K3's cyber capabilities - the first formal cross-Atlantic evaluation of a Chinese open-weight frontier model.
Jul 25, 2026 at 10:27 10 11
Thailand: +37% of investment requests in H1, driven by the AI wave
The Thai BOI rakes in a record first half - the country becomes a credible landing spot for AI/datacenter projects on the sidelines of the US-China duel.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 13 9
US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over IP theft - the frontier-access debate turns geopolitical
Washington threatens sanctions against Chinese models for intellectual property theft. The question of controlling access to frontier technologies shifts from technical to diplomatic.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:41 13 9
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China: CAC regulates "anthropomorphic" AI companion apps - interim measures, not outright ban [ENCADRE titre="What is an anthropomorphic AI?" contenu="An AI that mimics human characteristics, such as emotions, personality, and appearance."]
The regime targets apps that simulate a specific personality and maintain a consistent emotional relationship - new pillar of the social framework for consumer LLM in China.
Jul 20, 2026 at 16:42 9 9
Taipei investigates former TSMC employees accused of selling chip secrets to China
The investigation shifts supply-chain tension from equipment to human capital - the most difficult constraint to protect.
Jul 20, 2026 at 16:42 13 17
Moonshot suspends new Kimi K3 subscriptions: launch-week demand outruns capacity
Days after Kimi K3 went live, Moonshot has paused new paid subscriptions - a rare public admission that a Chinese frontier lab hit its own inference ceiling on launch week.
Jul 19, 2026 at 23:50 14 13
Biren and ZTE ship optical AI supernodes as Nvidia restrictions bite
Two Chinese vendors unveiled supernode designs on the same day. Sovereign compute is now producing news at Nvidia cadence.
Jul 19, 2026 at 16:32 12 14