Open-Weight Rift, Frontier Models, and a $2,000 Math Proof

OpenAI teases Astra via math breakthroughs for $2,000; China's model race escalates; DRAM shortage reaches consumer shelves.

• OpenAI Teases 'Astra' After Solving 10 Long-Standing Math Problems for $2,000
• Moonshot AI Built Kimi K3 on Alibaba-Brokered Nvidia Chips — White House Alleges More Were Smuggled
• Physical AI Is No Longer a Pilot: 88% of Manufacturers Are Now Integrating AI
• AI's Memory Hunger Has Triggered a DRAM Shortage — and Consumer Prices Are Rising
• 235 Companies Back Open AI Weights; Anthropic's CEO Draws a Line at WMD Thresholds
• Alibaba Launches Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4 Trillion Parameters and 1 Million Token Context