# AI News Digest - 2026-07-07

1. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was reported to have discussed with President Trump the possibility of giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, a stake that at the company's recent valuation was estimated to be worth roughly $42.6 billion and was framed in reporting with per-household payout scenarios.

2. Chinese regulators forced ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down features that allowed users to build and chat with custom humanlike AI companions in response to new Beijing rules.

3. Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 AI server rack was reported to have been delayed more than a year to 2028 due to circuit board manufacturing problems, and the Rubin Ultra variant was canceled, with analysts reporting associated market declines for Asian suppliers.

4. Tencent released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture that activated 21 billion parameters at a time and was reported by Tencent to match models two to five times its active size while reducing hallucination rates to 5.4%.

5. Zhipu AI launched ZCode, incorporating GLM-5.2 into a development environment aimed at long-context coding tasks and offering new customers a five-day trial with up to 5 million tokens per day plus increased subscriber token quotas through July 2026.

# References

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/06/1140176/your-familys-300-stake-in-openai/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/06/1140176/your-familys-300-stake-in-openai/)

[Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/06/1140176/your-familys-300-stake-in-openai/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/china-forces-its-biggest-ai-platforms-to-shut-down-humanlike-chatbot-personas/](https://the-decoder.com/china-forces-its-biggest-ai-platforms-to-shut-down-humanlike-chatbot-personas/)

[China forces its biggest AI platforms to shut down humanlike chatbot personas](https://the-decoder.com/china-forces-its-biggest-ai-platforms-to-shut-down-humanlike-chatbot-personas/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/nvidias-kyber-nvl144-reportedly-pushed-back-more-than-a-year-asian-suppliers-drop/](https://the-decoder.com/nvidias-kyber-nvl144-reportedly-pushed-back-more-than-a-year-asian-suppliers-drop/)

[Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop](https://the-decoder.com/nvidias-kyber-nvl144-reportedly-pushed-back-more-than-a-year-asian-suppliers-drop/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/tencent-releases-hy3-open-source-model-that-allegedly-matches-models-up-to-five-times-its-active-size/](https://the-decoder.com/tencent-releases-hy3-open-source-model-that-allegedly-matches-models-up-to-five-times-its-active-size/)

[Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size](https://the-decoder.com/tencent-releases-hy3-open-source-model-that-allegedly-matches-models-up-to-five-times-its-active-size/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ai-launches-zcode-to-challenge-claude-code-and-openai-codex-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/](https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ai-launches-zcode-to-challenge-claude-code-and-openai-codex-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/)

[Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost](https://the-decoder.com/zhipu-ai-launches-zcode-to-challenge-claude-code-and-openai-codex-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/)

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