Three AI labs converge on wanting Washington to regulate them, while Stripe’s board fight for PayPal hits its first snag. Plus Xi Jinping’s Shanghai pitch for a China-led AI order, Moonshot’s open-weight Kimi K3, and a wildcard papyrus fragment of the Iliad found inside a mummy.

Axios · Jul 16

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind's chiefs each published distinct proposals for a US-led federal AI regulator.

Dominic-Madori Davis, TechCrunch · Jul 16

Chinese lab Moonshot is readying an open-weight Kimi K3 model reported to rival Anthropic's Opus 4.8.

Ana-Maria Stanciuc, The Next Web · Jul 17

Xi Jinping's Shanghai keynote pitched China-led international cooperation as an alternative to US AI governance.

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac · Jul 17

Apple sent preservation letters to about 40 former employees now at OpenAI in its trade-secrets suit.

Milana Vinn & Manya Saini, Reuters via Yahoo Finance · Jul 16

PayPal's board views Stripe and Advent's $53 billion, $60.50-a-share bid as undervaluing the company.

Fintech Global · Jul 14

Payouts.com launched autonomous AI agents that handle accounts payable, collections, treasury and reconciliation.

Simon Willison · Jul 15

xAI open-sourced its Grok Build coding-agent CLI, roughly 844,000 lines of Rust, after a prior privacy controversy.

Simon Willison · Jul 16

Willison tests Moonshot's new Kimi K3 with his pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark and assesses what it still shows.

Derek Thompson · Jul 14

Thompson relays philosopher Agnes Callard's "uni-context" theory for why modern life feels disorienting.