The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"
—Pope Leo XIV
Vaibhav Jha is an Editor and Co-founder of AI FrontPage. In his decade long career in journalism, Vaibhav has reported for publications including The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and The New York Times, covering the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Outside work, he’s usually trying to persuade people to watch Anurag Kashyap films.
Reps Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran have introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, requiring the largest AI developers to be able to throttle, suspend or shut down their models and letting DHS order shutdowns in emergencies.
There has not been any official complaint by Anthropic against Moonshot AI of training their Kimi K3 model through distillation of Claude Fable model.
The AI talks, one of the key outcomes of the Trump-Xi summit in May, are expected to take place ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s planned visit to the US on 24 September, according to the sources.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai closed with 20.36 billion yuan in intended procurement deals, a new intergovernmental AI body signed by 29 countries, and Xi Jinping’s first in-person address a coordinated pitch to the Global South weeks after Washington launched its own AI alliance.
Cambridge-based CuspAI has launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 tech giants and research groups including NVIDIA, Meta, Samsung and Hyundai Motor Group, alongside a $450 million Series B that values the two-year-old startup at $2.6 billion.
Days after Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, the world’s first open-weight 3T model, OpenAI’s Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball described open-weight AI as “full AI communism” and the vision of AI as a state-provided public good as a “dystopian hellscape”.
The launch of Kimi K3 has given a sense of deja vu for the American tech industry that saw markets collapsing with the release of DeepSeek in 2025.
AI the invisible middleman: How artificial intelligence has quietly moved from being something you talk to (chatbots, where persuasion already exists) to something that sits between people, editing what billions write and read.
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, China’s BrainCo unveiled a brain-to-robot AI platform that lets a user direct a robotic arm through EEG signals alone decoding neural intent into machine commands in under 200 milliseconds.
A Michigan federal judge has warned the US Justice Department after a government filing in an immigration case cited Taylor v. Hott, a Sixth Circuit case that does not exist in federal court records.
