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The Global Times publishes the first official articulation of China’s ‘iterative logic’ of open-source AI as institutional doctrine; Zuckerberg releases ‘The Future is for Everyone’ manifesto and Meta’s Muse model family as a direct institutional counter-move to China’s open-weight dominance; Chinese AI labs drive global enterprise API costs to a 2026 low, creating a new institutional pricing regime; the US House Homeland Security Committee deepens its investigation into Chinese AI models in US critical infrastructure.

DeepSeek releases V4-Flash under MIT license — the first Chinese frontier open-weight model under a truly permissive OSI-style license; Alibaba moves Qwen toward revenue-sharing for large commercial users, creating a new ‘open weights, paid use’ institutional form; Reuters and Yahoo report Beijing has met with Alibaba and ByteDance to discuss curbing overseas access to its most advanced AI models, moving the July export-control debate from rumor toward implementation.