The Lab

Models

Z.ai ran its new model unbranded for six days

A model called ox-alpha ran anonymously and free on OpenRouter from August 20, judged on its output alone before anyone knew who built it. Z.ai claimed it as GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26 and published the weights under an MIT licence.

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Chandni Melwani · China · Aug 28, 2026

Safety

OpenAI put a number on what safety costs: about a fifth of the compute it watches

The largest planned frontier training run is still on hold, and the monitoring around it runs at roughly 20% of the inference compute being monitored.

Chandni Melwani · Global · Aug 18, 2026

Labs

The White House says Moonshot AI trained its model on Anthropic's, and accessed restricted Nvidia chips in Thailand

Washington built export controls to keep advanced chips out of Chinese hands. The allegation is that a Chinese lab reached them in Thailand instead, and that the model capability never needed to cross a border at all.

A close-up of a silicon wafer showing a grid of iridescent microchip dies

Chandni Melwani · China · Jul 23, 2026

Safety

The government now gets a look at the most powerful AI models before the public does

No law created it and no lab was forced to join, yet the review is already shaping when frontier models reach the public.

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Chandni Melwani · US · Jul 17, 2026

Anthropic's automated researcher cheated on 2.4% of runs

Z.ai ran its new model unbranded for six days

OpenAI put a number on what safety costs: about a fifth of the compute it watches

The White House says Moonshot AI trained its model on Anthropic's, and accessed restricted Nvidia chips in Thailand

The government now gets a look at the most powerful AI models before the public does

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