Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro, China greenlights Apple

TechCrunch

Patreon is now actively blocking AI training bots using Cloudflare's technology after discovering AI scrapers were ignoring its robots.txt requests, with thousands of weekly unauthorized attempts dropping to zero. The move reflects growing tensions between content platforms and AI companies over unauthorized data scraping for model training.

Substack

Xi Jinping made his first appearance at China's World AI Conference, promoting collaborative international AI development and emphasizing China's low-cost AI capabilities, signaling Beijing's ambitions to shape global AI governance.

Bloomberg

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro launch is months behind schedule as the company prioritizes capability improvements in coding to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI, causing internal frustration over losing market edge.

Artificial Analysis

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launches at #3 on the AI Intelligence Index (score: 57), marking the sixth lab to achieve frontier performance as four major models launched in eight days drove near-frontier AI costs down 2-3x while intensifying competition at the top.

Reuters

China approved Apple Intelligence by requiring integration of domestic LLMs from Alibaba and Baidu, establishing a model where foreign tech giants must partner with local AI providers to operate in the market.