DeepSeek Moves Into Chip Design to Beat Export Controls

DeepSeek Moves Into Chip Design to Beat Export Controls

DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip, confirmed by Reuters sources - the first semiconductor project in the lab's history, driven by US export controls that cut off China from Nvidia hardware and HBM memory.

LongCat-2.0 Review: China's Stealth Coder

Meituan's 1.6T open-source coding model secretly topped OpenRouter for two months before revealing itself - and the price-to-performance math is hard to argue with.

Anthropic Caught Qwen Running 25,000 Fake Claude Accounts

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 25,000 fraudulent accounts that extracted 28.8 million Claude interactions in the largest AI distillation attack on record.

Claude Hits Azure GA on NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra Hardware

Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra NVL72 racks - with vendor numbers claiming 40% faster token generation than H100.

Mechanical Turk Closes - AI Ate Its Own Training Data

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30, 2026, retiring the crowdsourcing platform that spent 21 years training the AI models now replacing it.