Monday, August 31, 2026. DeepSeek-V4 multimodal just open-sourced. National-level AI applications special policy just landed.

"GPT-6" gray-test demo is going viral, Thursday release supposedly imminent. That could reset the frontier—or be benchmark theater. Paradigm and Huawei struck a major computing power deal. Paradigm becomes one of the first AI companies on Huawei's stack. Didi's next-gen autonomous vehicle began passenger-carrying tests. That's a robotaxi service, not a concept demo. So what? Open weights, national policy, domestic compute, and robotaxis all hit in the same cycle. China isn't waiting.

"GPT-6" gray-test demo is going viral, Thursday release supposedly imminent. That could reset the frontier—or be benchmark theater.