☕️ Zuckerberg opposes Chinese AI ban

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🇨🇳 Zuckerberg opposes Chinese AI ban

🤖 US bans Chinese humanoid robots

🚨 Russia charges Durov with terrorism

🔐 Claude AI cracks post-quantum encryption

🧬 Google disbands AlphaFold team

Plus: 🎁 11 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 4 papers.

🇨🇳 Zuckerberg opposes Chinese AI ban LINK

Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out against Washington's push to ban advanced Chinese AI models from use in the United States, telling the Financial Times that shutting China out is "not an effective solution" for staying ahead.

Rather than building a wall, the Meta boss said the US should find where it lags and fix those problems, while criticizing OpenAI and Anthropic for lobbying to restrict powerful "frontier" models on safety grounds.

His comments land during a Washington fight sharpened by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release in mid-July, with Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Elon Musk backing open weights against tighter controls sought by OpenAI and Anthropic.

🤖 US bans Chinese humanoid robots LINK

The FCC is blocking imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots, four-legged robot dogs, and power inverters over national security worries, a decision aimed squarely at China, which controls about 85% of the global humanoid market.

FCC chair Brendan Carr said the ban covers "new versions" of these products and cited cybersecurity risks and fragile supply chains, though it appears not to stop use of existing devices or previously approved inverter models.

China's Foreign Ministry called the move protectionism and vowed to defend its firms, arriving weeks before a planned September meeting between Xi Jinping and Trump; Chinese makers Unitree and AGIBOT each shipped over 5,000 robots in 2025.

🚨 Russia charges Durov with terrorism LINK

Russia's FSB security agency has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and added him to an international wanted list, with the accusations carrying a possible sentence of life in prison.

The FSB claims Telegram failed to take down channels, chats and bots that Ukrainian intelligence and extremist groups allegedly used to organize sabotage, attacks and cyber fraud inside Russia, according to Interfax.

The charges build on an investigation started in February, after Russia began limiting Telegram and fined the platform over 100 million rubles ($1.25 million) this year for not removing content banned under Russian law.

🔐 Claude AI cracks post-quantum encryption LINK

Anthropic's Mythos 5 model can find and exploit previously unknown flaws in every major operating system, including the open-source code behind web infrastructure and encryption, an FBI official said this week.

The Trump administration placed export controls on Mythos 5 in June over national security worries, then lifted them in recent weeks after Anthropic worked with the government to review its safeguards.

Mythos 5 is limited to an approved U.S. government group, but Anthropic offers a globally available model built on the same technology, and even "less capable" models found and exploited flaws the same way.

🧬 Google disbands AlphaFold team LINK

Google DeepMind has broken up the team behind AlphaFold, the AI program that predicts protein shapes, reassigning most of its key members and paper authors while a few others have left the company entirely, according to the Financial Times.

AlphaFold predicts three-dimensional protein structures from amino acid sequences in minutes, and its free database gives researchers over 200 million predictions used for drug discovery, vaccines, and studying diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis for the work, left in June to join Anthropic along with some colleagues, while others moved to Gemini projects or the spin-off Isomorphic Labs.

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• DoorDash is building its own drone delivery businessLINK

• Apple is turning to AI companies to improve the security of its operating systemsLINK

🧰 Trending tools

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Prelint: reviews AI-generated PRs against your ADRs, docs and past decisions to catch product drift before it ships.LINK

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Epilude: turns speech into polished, punctuated text in any Mac app by holding a key, speaking, and releasing—processed fully on-device for privacy.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

Real-time driver scoring turns pass-fail crash prediction into a continuous 0-100 safety score, revealing that 87% of crashes stem from multiple risk factors combining to 4.5x baseline danger, useful for insurers, fleets, and self-driving systems.LINK

AI resume screeners often look unbiased simply because they can't actually judge whether a candidate fits the role, so testing eight popular tools for fairness alone misses that hidden failure and risks certifying broken hiring tools as neutral.LINK

AI agent design tools map out 21 user experience factors and six needed prototyping capabilities, then test a new tool letting builders design and evaluate how automation agents behave before shipping them.LINK

Textbook-grounded AI tutors work best with simple search-based retrieval rather than fancier graph-based methods, hitting 99.4% accuracy at finding the right page, and the gains are even bigger for cheaper, weaker models.LINK

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