Weekly AI News - Jul 24, 2026

The hosts kick off with a deep dive into the escalating US-China AI rivalry. They explore secret Trump administration plans to ban Chinese AI and discuss Beijing aggressively expanding its computing power. Meanwhile, polling shows the American public already believes China leads the tech race.Shifting to open-source technology, they examine a joint manifesto signed by a broad coalition of tech companies and organizations—including Microsoft, Meta, IBM, NVIDIA, and others—championing open-weight models for innovation. The hosts highlight Hugging Face using a Chinese model to stop a cyberattack after US guardrails paralyzed American defenses. Finally, the hosts dispute claims that China's Kimi K3 copied Anthropic.For the final segment, the conversation turns to the future of AI economics and efficiency. OpenAI predicts companies will soon stop obsessing over token costs. Finally, they review Google's speed-focused Gemini models and a proposed Genie coefficient to measure if agents truly follow user intent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.