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China processes 140 trillion AI tokens daily, has coined a new word for the unit, and is riding a Hong Kong IPO wave. But turning tokens into profits remains the unresolved question for Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and a generation of well-funded startups.
Sofia University's INSAIT and Netflix co-developed VOID, an open-source AI model that deletes objects from video while physically simulating how the scene would change afterward -- beating existing tools on visual consistency.
Putin declared AI sovereignty a matter of national survival at a Kremlin meeting on April 10, 2026, ordering economy-wide deployment by 2030 and dedicated defense AI development.
ShinyHunters listed Rockstar Games on its dark web leak site with an April 14 pay-or-publish deadline after breaching the company via a compromised SaaS cloud-cost tool and using stolen tokens to access Snowflake.
CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis says AI 'coworkers' will be embedded in every analytic platform within years, with officers eventually managing teams of autonomous AI agents.
From $1.99-per-minute AI Jesus video calls to BuddhaBot trained on Buddhist scripture, faith-based AI is a fast-growing market -- and researchers are raising urgent questions about manipulation, data privacy, and what it means when an AI claims spiritual authority.
A new Gallup poll of 1,500+ young people finds Gen Z excitement about AI has fallen 14 points since 2025. Only 3% trust fully AI-generated work, yet Amazon is spending $200 billion on AI this year.
Meta is funding TerraPower reactors and a 1.2 GW Oklo campus. Amazon committed 5 GW of SMRs with X-energy by 2039. Google targets its first reactor through Kairos Power by 2030. Big Tech has decided that nuclear is the only answer to AI energy demand.
Alibaba secretly launched Happy Horse 1.0 inside its newly formed Token Hub unit. The model hit No. 1 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard before anyone knew Alibaba had built it, displacing ByteDance's SeeDance.
Bellingcat found 795 email and password combinations for Hungarian government officials in stealer malware logs, covering 12 of 13 ministries and including a counter-terrorism coordinator and hybrid threat analyst.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview partners with Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft on Project Glasswing to redefine AI-driven defensive cybersecurity.
A hacker alias FlamingChina claims to have extracted 10-plus petabytes of classified defense data from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, including missile schematics and aerospace engineering files. Security analysts say the samples look real.
