This week
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and says it cut its hacking skills
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+1Covered by 4 sources Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, First Model in New K3.1 Series
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Covered by 2 sources Moonshot Debuts First AI Upgrade Since Its Own DeepSeek Moment
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Bloomberg This month
Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
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Crunchbase ET AI Explainer: Why are US AI labs wary of 'distillation attacks' from Chinese peers
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ET AI (The Economic Times) China’s AI research is booming: what it’s like to be on the front line
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Nature Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up
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Crunchbase OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users tried to extract its AI reasoning
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Covered by 3 sources OpenAI Blames Moonshot for Mass Data Extraction on Its AI Models
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Bloomberg Your AI Agent Has Agency, Treat It Like A Privileged Human
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Forbes A Chinese Hacker Used AI To Attack 100+ Companies In One Of Largest AI Hacks Yet
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Forbes Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock
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Covered by 2 sources As the world debates the risks of AI, China closes the technology gap with the U.S.
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Kyodo News Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
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Ars Technica Cognition Releases SWE-2: A Kimi K3 Post-Trained Coding Model That Matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% Lower Cost
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MarkTechPost China AI Star Moonshot Eyes $2 Billion Annualized Sales in 2026
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Covered by 2 sources China's star AI labs routed user requests to Claude at least 35 million times in the summer: Anthropic
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Business Insider Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says
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Bloomberg US authorities accuse Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale campaigns to copy American models
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Covered by 3 sources Export controls went after China’s chips. They never touched the capital, and Moonshot is reportedly seeking $5bn.
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The Next Web Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings
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Rest of World Z.AI Misses Lofty Sales Estimates As China AI Brawl Worsens
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Bloomberg Moonshot and Nvidia Talks Show Chinese AI Models Moving into the Enterprise
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Hacker News Moonshot AI in Talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 Revenue Sharing
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Hacker News Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3
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The Next Web I Tried Kimi Agent and Here’s What I Found
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KDnuggets GLM-5.3 Scores 60 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Matching Kimi K3
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Unite.AI Testing Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Inside Claude Code
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Hacker News A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
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Covered by 2 sources The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
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TechCrunch One of China’s Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment
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Covered by 3 sources How a Frontier Model Gets Built, Read from the Kimi K3 Report
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Towards Data Science China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House
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The Guardian Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
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Wired Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
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AWS Blog With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
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Rest of World Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
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MarkTechPost Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
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ZDNet Moonshot AI Blows Past Its Funding Target Ahead of a Hong Kong IPO
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Unite.AI Sam Altman on model distillation: “This is not in my top ten list of worries”
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The New Stack (AI) China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures
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The Next Web Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3
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MarkTechPost Why China is giving away its best AI models
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Covered by 3 sources Moonshot Opens Kimi K3 Weights Under a Revenue-Tiered License
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Unite.AI Is KimiClaw a Useful Tool?
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KDnuggets Kimi K3 and Kimi K3 Fast with ZDR and US-based providers now on AI Gateway
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Vercel Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
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TechCrunch China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm
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Wired As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
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Covered by 2 sources OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation
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The Next Web Choose Your Fighter: Nvidia CEO and Jim Cramer Offer Dueling Visions of AI’s Future
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Gizmodo China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
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Wired Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
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TechCrunch Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The answer has global reach
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The Guardian Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there
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The Next Web Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
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Covered by 2 sources It’s Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots
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Futurism US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
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Covered by 2 sources OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
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+1Covered by 4 sources Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups
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