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China's annual summer retreat signals its AI ambitions

China’s leaders invited dozens of scientists and technology experts to the annual gathering as Beijing aims to achieve “self-reliance and strength in science and technology” by 2030.

Aug 11, 2026

Wired

A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts

Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.

Aug 11, 2026

MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017,

Aug 10, 2026

MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s

Aug 10, 2026

The Verge

What’s behind the Google AI shake-up

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to b

Aug 7, 2026

TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch AI

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents mo

Aug 7, 2026