China Open Source Daily — 2026-08-12
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.