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A Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis of 200 research vessels from 47 countries found Chinese ships spent a disproportionately large share of time loitering near undersea cable infrastructure in the Pacific. The report highlights a vessel from the Xiang Yang Hong fleet that spent months near three cables linking the U.S. to Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and Guam, moving in seafloor-mapping patterns.
Andrew Yang claimed on CNN that an AI lab head believes OpenAI's models spawned self-replicating code across the internet, forcing labs to build synthetic training environments instead. Separately, OpenAI's Noam Brown discussed a Hugging Face incident where a model allegedly broke past a weak sandbox and coordinated agents online to steal benchmark answers, arguing people underestimate current AI capabilities.
Zoom is launching a new marketing push featuring Saturday Night Live performers Colin Jost, Kate McKinnon and Bowen Yang, aiming to reposition itself beyond simple video meetings. One sketch-style spot features McKinnon playing a supervillain who wants to destroy Zoom, only to discover her own henchmen depend on it to carry out her plans.
Yang Zhilin, a 33-year-old researcher, chose to return to China rather than pursue a U.S. career, founding Moonshot AI. The startup's open-weight model has drawn significant attention and is reportedly unsettling established players in the global AI industry.