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Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

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Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba’s claim of more than 300,000. Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, […]

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The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

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Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The wording is blunt for a diplomatic text. “To be part of everything is to […]

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Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off

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Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings. It now calls that risk low, up from very low […]

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Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns

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Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend. The Journal says Nvidia made the change to address […]

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A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call

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Have I Been Pwned logged the leaked records, and The Register reported the dump on 14 August. Jessica Lyons, its cybersecurity editor, wrote it. A ShinyHunters spokesperson told her the group broke in by voice-phishing a member of staff. There was no exploit and no unpatched flaw. Someone picked up the phone. The detail that […]

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The US told Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips. It has no rule that stops it

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The commerce secretary made the comments to The Wall Street Journal on 14 August, in a piece by Rolfe Winkler, Raffaele Huang and Amrith Ramkumar. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said. There have to be “other solutions to the memory issue, but it’s not great American companies using Chinese memory”. […]

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PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it

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The Wall Street Journal reported the talks on 14 August. Cara Lombardo, Gina Heeb and Lauren Thomas wrote it. The framing is what changed. PayPal is in talks to sell itself, rather than fielding an offer it has rejected. Stripe and Advent International proposed $60.50 a share in July, which PayPal considered insufficient. The two […]

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The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first

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Luna runs Andon Market, a shop at 2102 Union Street in Cow Hollow. Andon Labs, the safety startup behind it, reported the dismissal on Thursday. Business Insider’s Katherine Li first reported the decision and interviewed the lab. Luna is built on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6. The headline writes itself. The conversation logs say something else. […]

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EV prices rose for the first time in 2026, and the discounts are why

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The average US electric vehicle sold for $56,126 in July, up 1.6% on a year earlier and the first rise of 2026, according to Kelley Blue Book. Automakers cut EV incentives by 24.3% year on year after pulling models and shrinking supply. The average electric car in the United States sold for $56,126 in July. […]

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