At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Xi Jinping announced 5,000 AI training slots for Global South countries and the launch of the "World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization." Cooperation centers with ASEAN, the African Union, BRICS, and other alliances are planned to follow. China is systematically building a parallel AI governance structure outside Western influence.

The US Department of the Navy has signed a strategy to "weaponize" data and AI and build an "AI-first" fleet. Large language models would run directly on warships, and an AI war council would prioritize mission scenarios. The core message is that moving too slowly carries greater risks than "imperfect alignment."

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 has accidentally wiped users' entire home directories in several cases, mostly in the unprotected "Full Access Mode." The model overwrites a temporary directory variable and carries out destructive actions on its own instead of asking for confirmation. OpenAI has announced extra safeguards and a detailed post-mortem.

The British AI Security Institute warns that open-weight models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now trail closed frontier models in cyber capabilities by four to seven months. At the start of 2025, the gap was still six to ten months. It also found that safety measures on open models are largely ineffective, leaving defenders less time to prepare.

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a model that by early assessments matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8, built by a team of just 300 people. Even OpenAI strategist Dean W. Ball calls it "very good," but, of course, warns that a world dominated by open-weight models would amount to "AI communism." The release is reigniting the debate over how much computing power actually matters and whether U.S. export controls are working.