The "pelican benchmark" by Simon Willison arbitrates Kimi K3
An SVG illustration test acts as a quick progress gauge: Simon Willison publishes his reading of K3 on July 16 and 17.
5 h ago 3 3
Kioxia -16%, SoftBank in retreat: the Asian AI complex prices a deleveraging
Deleveraging AI in Asia: Kioxia drops 16%, SoftBank slides. The repricing of AI risk begins to show in the prices.
18 h ago 9 10
Tencent SkillHub launches SkillPay: monetization of agent skills enters the catalog
Tencent SkillHub opens SkillPay to sell AI agent skills. An agentic plugin marketplace, made in Shenzhen.
18 h ago 11 9
Kimi K3 goes live at 2.8 trillion parameters: Moonshot ships the biggest open-weight frontier bet yet
Moonshot takes Kimi K3 to GA with a striking figure: 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest open-weight architecture announced to date.
18 h ago 7 8
Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab ships its first open-weights model - a 975B MoE, Apache-2.0, multimodal
The first open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) is here: Inkling, MoE 975B params (41B active), multimodal, Apache-2.0 license. The most discreet box in the frontier scene enters the open market through the front door.
yesterday 8 8
Kimi K3 goes live: Moonshot ships the model after the preview flood
After the wave of teasers and benchmark videos, Moonshot AI has put Kimi K3 into production on kimi.com and via its code API. The question is no longer "when," but "at what price, at what latency, and for what real use."
yesterday 9 8
Kimi K3 preview: Moonshot floods the timeline before shipping
Benchmark clips are everywhere. The model card, the API, and any reproducible evaluation are not.
yesterday 8 8
CXMT Raises $8.5B: China Lists Its Memory at the Peak of the Shortage
Largest semiconductor IPO ever in China. The timing is no coincidence: DRAM is the rare resource of the AI era, and Beijing is turning scarcity into capital.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:32 10 6
Google Genkit v.Agents: detached turns and human-in-the-loop are now in preview
Google releases a preview of the Genkit Agents API for TS and Go, with detached turns (the agent survives disconnection) and HITL with anti-forgery validation - two building blocks that post-mortem agents have been requesting for twelve months.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 8 9
Chromium 148: Math.tanh now targets your operating system
A tiny numerical regression opens a cross-browser fingerprinting path. In crypto as in tracking, there is no such thing as chance.
Jul 13, 2026 at 02:20 11 8
Doubao Phone Gen 2 - the Chinese agent smartphone arrives at WAIC 2026
Nubia (ZTE) and ByteDance announce the imminent release of a smartphone whose OS is structured around the Doubao agent. This is not a skin - it's an architectural bet.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 14 14
Kimi × Agricultural Bank of China × Amex: the first AI-native credit card
Moonshot AI (Kimi) partners with Agricultural Bank of China and American Express to launch a credit card whose interface, customer relationship, and scoring are powered by a Chinese LLM. This is the first time a Chinese LLM has been placed at the heart of a major banking product.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 9 10