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Nvidia Forms Second AI Security Alliance Without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google China Says US AI Firms Distilled Chinese Models, Cites No Evidence CXMT Closes Up 466% in Shanghai Debut With No HBM Project in Its Prospectus Zeiss Adds 25,000 Square Meters at a Plant That Caps ASML's EUV Output OPINION: Europe Can Afford a Frontier AI Lab and Refuses to Concentrate the Money OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI Nvidia Forms Second AI Security Alliance Without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google China Says US AI Firms Distilled Chinese Models, Cites No Evidence CXMT Closes Up 466% in Shanghai Debut With No HBM Project in Its Prospectus Zeiss Adds 25,000 Square Meters at a Plant That Caps ASML's EUV Output OPINION: Europe Can Afford a Frontier AI Lab and Refuses to Concentrate the Money OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI
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China Says US AI Firms Distilled Chinese Models, Cites No Evidence

China Says US AI Firms Distilled Chinese Models, Cites No Evidence

China's Ministry of Commerce accused "many American AI enterprises" of distilling Chinese models on Monday and promised "all necessary measures" if the Trump administration sanctions Chinese firms. The statement named no company and gave no evidence, while Anthropic's February report identified DeepSeek, MiniMax and Moonshot AI by name and alleged more than 16 million exchanges with Claude through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts. Beijing cited two American letters back at Washington.

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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar No. 13: graphify turns any folder of code, papers and screenshots into a queryable knowledge graph. Tencent's CubeSandbox boots a hardware-isolated agent sandbox in under 60ms. Together AI's hallmark stops coding agents shipping the same gradient hero. Microsoft's Flint compiles agent chart specs into Vega-Lite, ECharts or Chart.js. PentAGI runs autonomous security tests inside Docker. Five projects that narrow what an agent may see, run, render or spend.

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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

This week's Repo Radar tracks five GitHub projects where AI agents move from chat into real production work: OpenMontage turns a coding assistant into a video studio, Google Labs' design.md gives agents a design-system spec, Strix runs autonomous penetration tests, Alibaba's page-agent drives live web interfaces in natural language, and MinerU converts messy PDFs into LLM-ready markdown. Difficulty scores, licenses, and push dates for each, plus why OpenMontage is Repo of the Week.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar's eleventh issue tracks five GitHub projects builders attach to AI agents once a demo becomes a workload: Agent-Reach, a CLI giving agents live access to Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube; Flue, the Astro team's sandbox agent harness; cognee, a graph-based memory layer; hunk, a review-first diff viewer for agent-written code; and mistral.rs, a Rust engine for local inference. Each scored on stars, language, license, push date, and setup difficulty.

Marcus Schuler · 11 min read ·
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Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol: How to Orchestrate Claude and Codex to Ship More Reliable Code

OpenAI shipped an official plugin that installs inside Anthropic's Claude Code and hands coding work to Codex. This walkthrough installs it and sets up the /route command, so Fable 5 manages while Codex's GPT-5.6 builds, and traces where AI coding value is moving.

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When Claude Fable 5 Is Worth Double, and When to Use Opus 4.8

Anthropic reports Claude Fable 5 falls back to Opus 4.8 on a fifth of Terminal-Bench trials, and after the July relaunch one tester measured three of four debugging tasks rerouted. The launch drew a researcher revolt over hidden limits; Andon Labs found an alignment slip. Double the price.

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OPINION: Europe Can Afford a Frontier AI Lab and Refuses to Concentrate the Money
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OPINION: Europe Can Afford a Frontier AI Lab and Refuses to Concentrate the Money

Europe runs three separate AI compute programs and none funds the one lab already at frontier scale. CERN and ESA together budget less in a year than Anthropic spent in 2025. The constraint is allocation, not money.

Europe runs three separate AI compute programs and none funds the one lab already at frontier scale. CERN and ESA together budget less in a year than Anthropic spent in 2025. The constraint is allocation, not money.

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