(opens original source in a new tab)Rest of WorldWhy Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI modelsLow-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness. (opens original source in a new tab)Viola Zhou·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsPNLD Breach Exposes U.K. Police and Government Contact Details on Dark WebThe Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has confirmed that police, government and customer contact information was compromised and published on the dark web. The data included names, organisations and work email addresses belonging to police officers, police staff, criminal justice professionals, government partners and customers. The incident, identified on July 26, also exposed some names (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostChina acknowledges ‘temperature gap’ between tech boom and traditional slumpA top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China’s booming AI sector and its struggling traditional industries. And while arguing that this divergence was not unique to China, the Qiushi Journal stressed that rapid technological advances must not leave ordinary citizens behind. In a commentary published on its website on Sunday, the journal conceded that there was an obvious “gap in temperature” in the world’s second-largest... (opens original source in a new tab)Frank Chen·3 August 2026
AI & Machine Learning (opens original source in a new tab)MIT Technology ReviewHere’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goalsMIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were just looking for answers… (opens original source in a new tab)Grace Huckins·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)STAT NewsSTAT+: Are AI scribes useful tools in medical education, or a crutch that imperils learning?Educators want future physicians to be fluent in AI scribes, but they worry what off-loading clinical notes to AI could do to learning. (opens original source in a new tab)Lauren Chan·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostWill AI healthcare be China’s new global growth engine?Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed healthcare for hundreds of millions of people in China. AI-powered apps help them manage their health and seek care, while others help doctors better diagnose and treat their patients. AI analysis of routine scans detects cancers and other conditions physicians might have missed. Personalised cancer vaccines built on AI analysis will soon begin rolling off production lines in China. The country’s leading tech companies have poured resources into... (opens original source in a new tab)Ben Jiang·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostWill AI healthcare be China’s new global growth engine?Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed healthcare for hundreds of millions of people in China. AI-powered apps help them manage their health and seek care, while others help doctors better diagnose and treat their patients. AI analysis of routine scans detects cancers and other conditions physicians might have missed. Personalised cancer vaccines built on AI analysis will soon begin rolling off production lines in China. The country’s leading tech companies have poured resources into... (opens original source in a new tab)Ben Jiang·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)The Hacker NewsThermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly UndetectableThermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them. The vendor's July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid outputs could occur if laboratory controls are circumvented. Thermo Fisher tracks the issue as CVE-2026-17583 and rates it (opens original source in a new tab)info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyMiniMax Desperately Swimming Past the Kill Line: Open-Source H3 Between Kimi K3 Performance Ceiling and DeepSeek Price Floor, With R&D Spending Triple RevenueMiniMax H3 open-source release comes as Kimi K3 raises the performance bar and DeepSeek V4-Flash crushes prices, while MiniMax 2025 financials show 253M R&D against 79M revenue. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyChinese Agent Tops OSWorld With 90.2% Success Rate: InAgent Crosses the 90% Threshold for Computer-Use Agents, Surpassing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic RecordsInAgent achieves 90.2% task success on OSWorld, the first Computer-Use Agent above 90%, with 100% on system-level tasks, as Harness engineering becomes the new AI competition frontier. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyAlibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Max Official Version: 2.4 Trillion Parameters With 1M Context Window, Long-Run Agent Capability, and Open Source Coming Within a WeekQwen3.8-Max official release delivers 2.4T parameters, 1M context, dramatically improved coding and office capabilities, standing in global first tier with open-source weights promised in a week. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·3 August 2026
