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AI News Brief: US President Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House this week for a state visit, with the two sides set to discuss a range of major issues just as the current US-China trade truce is about to expire, adding urgency to the meeting. Analysts expect both sides to take a ‘small concessions, avoid escalation’ approach rather than seek a breakthrough deal. This will be Trump and Xi’s second summit this year, following their May 14 meeting at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

AI news brief: Hugging Face announced that Jun Kim, creator and maintainer of oMLX, has officially joined the team to support the MLX ecosystem. MLX is Apple’s local AI framework built specifically for Apple Silicon chips, and Hugging Face has long been the go-to platform for publishing and sharing MLX models. This move means oMLX is transitioning from Jun Kim’s side project into an official effort fully backed and funded by Hugging Face.

AI News Flash: Alibaba Group unveiled on Tuesday what it’s calling China’s most powerful AI chip, part of a broader plan to expand global data center capacity to over 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2032. The announcement follows Alibaba’s earlier reveal of its massive data center expansion plans at its booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, signaling the company is ramping up investment in AI infrastructure.

AI News Flash: Chinese power infrastructure component suppliers have failed to fully catch the tailwind of the global AI investment boom, even as their American and European counterparts have clearly benefited from the same wave. Chinese makers’ stock performance remains relatively flat by comparison. The report notes that AI-driven investment has created shortages in power infrastructure components and pushed up order backlogs—normally a bullish signal—yet this surge in demand hasn’t shown up in the stock prices of Chinese companies. The core reason comes down to…

AI News Brief: Nikkei Asia reports that Japan is nurturing the next generation of space engineering talent by hosting a robot contest on the International Space Station (ISS). The contest, organized by the Space AI Robotics Association, requires participating teams to use AI to control robots, aiming to advance space exploration, AI, robotics, and simulation technology all at once.

AI News Brief: Based on 2026 context unrelated to North Korea/Okinawa, here’s the direct output. The US-China AI race is clearly accelerating, and the key reason is that AI itself is playing an increasingly deep role in its own R&D process, forming a self-reinforcing iterative loop. According to Nikkei, companies like Anthropic and DeepSeek have significantly sped up the release of new frontier model versions, with development cycles shrinking to a third of what they used to be. This means the model…

AI news brief: SoftBank Group plans to raise roughly $11 billion through dollar- and euro-denominated corporate bonds, with the proceeds mainly earmarked for the Japanese tech giant’s investment in US-based OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT). The dollar and euro bonds are expected to be issued by the end of this month, carrying a BB+ credit rating. SoftBank announced back in February that it would add another $30 billion to its OpenAI inves…

AI News Flash: Higgsfield AI has launched its next-gen video generation model, GPT-6 Astra, aimed at helping small and medium businesses create video ads and marketing content faster and cheaper. The tool integrates the Astra model into the Higgsfield platform, streamlining the process from text prompt to finished video, turning ad production that used to require a professional editing team or a bigger budget into something SMBs can now do on their own.

AI News Brief: this story is light on details (it only mentions the launch of new learning paths), so this summary sticks to what the source covers: OpenAI announced an expansion of its OpenAI Academy learning platform, adding several new learning paths tailored to five distinct audiences — everyday employees, developers, business leaders, educators, and students — aimed at helping people from different backgrounds build and demonstrate practical, real-world AI skills rather than just theoretical knowledge.

AI news brief: OpenAI lays out a path toward global common standards for AI, calling for coordinated action across industry and regulators on evaluation, disclosure, and governance to raise overall AI safety. See the original article for full details.