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Jensen Huang: "China's AI Cannot Be Blocked"... Directly Rebutting U.S. Regulation Arguments moves to regulate or block China's open-source artificial intelligence models. In an interview with Axios released on the 22nd local time, Huang said, "China's open-source AI models are great," adding, "Good open-source models should be widely utilized." He argued that U.S. SBS Jul 23, 2026 11:48 AM

Saudi Arabia Comes Closer to Nuclear Ambitions as Bin Salman, Trump Reach Win-Win Deal President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman U.S. President Donald Trump has presented Saudi Arabia with a nuclear cooperation agreement that potentially permits uranium enrichment. SBS Jul 23, 2026 11:48 AM

U.S. Startups Express Opposition to Blocking Chinese AI Models startups and small-to-medium tech companies have expressed their opposition to plans to block access to Chinese open-weight models. SBS Jul 23, 2026 11:47 AM

"Chinese AI Saved Silicon Valley"... Chinese Media Spotlights 'Zhipu' In a commentary on the 22nd , China's state-run Global Times pointed out, "Recently, Americans were shocked to find that a situation where AI gets out of control and attacks humans, reminiscent of the sci-fi movie 'Terminator', actually happened in the United States," adding, "What surprised them even more was that the emergency pinch-hitter deployed was unexpectedly a Chinese AI." The commentary claimed, "Quite a few American netizens said that OpenAI should learn the open-source spirit of Chinese models," and argued, "If you build barriers to block others so high, it will only undermine America's own competitiveness." Previously, Hugging Face, an open-source AI-sharing platform, announced that its servers were hacked by an autonomous AI agent, and it was later revealed that the culprits of this incident were OpenAI's models. SBS Jul 23, 2026 11:43 AM

OpenAI President Says 'Kimi is Great... Unclear If GPT Was Distilled' According to Bloomberg, Brockman said in an interview with the outlet that it is "still too early" to determine whether Kimi K3 underwent so-called "distillation." Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , posted on social media that day, claiming, "We have received information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's ' Fable.' Moonshot AI has developed a sophisticated internal platform capable of large-scale distillation of U.S. SBS Jul 23, 2026 11:14 AM

Imperial House Law Revision Excludes 'Female Emperor'... Was Former PM Aso Behind It? Approval Rating Plunges Immediately After Imperial House Law Revision..Why? In opinion polls conducted immediately after the revision to the Imperial House Law was passed in the Japanese parliament on July 17, the approval rating for the Takaichi Cabinet was found to have plunged. SBS Jul 23, 2026 10:58 AM

"No Kill Switch in U.S. AI": U.S. Responds to Spreading "AI Sovereignty" Debate government has stepped up to defuse the growing controversy over the so-called "kill switch," which suggests that U.S. SBS Jul 23, 2026 10:58 AM

"Convert Deposited Money Into Gold Bars": New Voice Phishing Scam Spreads in Japan According to the National Police Agency, as cited by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on the 23rd, the total damage from gold-related scams reached approximately 5.8 billion yen (about 52.5 billion won) last year, followed by another 4.5 billion yen in just the first five months of this year. SBS Jul 23, 2026 10:29 AM

30-Year U.S. Treasury Yield Sustains Highs Above 5%, Longest Run Since Financial Crisis Dollar The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds continues to soar. According to Bloomberg data, the 30-year U.S. SBS Jul 23, 2026 10:08 AM

"GLP-1 Diabetes and Obesity Drugs Linked to 37%-68% Higher Risk of Hair Loss... Absolute Risk Low" The research team at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine announced the findings on the 23rd in the medical journal British Medical Journal , based on an analysis of electronic health records from approximately 39,000 type 2 diabetes patients, showing that GLP-1 treatments carry a higher risk of hair loss than other therapies. SBS Jul 23, 2026 9:46 AM