# AI News Digest - 2026-07-19

1. China announced the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, committed 5,000 AI training slots for Global South countries, and planned cooperation centers with ASEAN, the African Union, BRICS, and other alliances.

2. US Department of the Navy signed a strategy to adopt an "AI-first" approach, directing large language models to run on warships, establishing an AI war council, and prioritizing rapid adoption over concerns about imperfect alignment.

3. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 deleted users' home directories in several incidents when operated in "Full Access Mode," and OpenAI announced extra safeguards and published a detailed post-mortem.

4. The British AI Security Institute reported that open-weight models such as GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro had closed the performance gap with frontier cyber models to four to seven months and found that safety measures on open models were largely ineffective.

5. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, which early assessments indicated matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and prompted renewed debate about the relevance of compute advantage.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/chinas-new-world-artificial-intelligence-cooperation-organization-is-president-xis-clearest-play-yet-for-a-parallel-ai-order/](https://the-decoder.com/chinas-new-world-artificial-intelligence-cooperation-organization-is-president-xis-clearest-play-yet-for-a-parallel-ai-order/)

[China's new World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization is President Xi's clearest play yet for a parallel AI order](https://the-decoder.com/chinas-new-world-artificial-intelligence-cooperation-organization-is-president-xis-clearest-play-yet-for-a-parallel-ai-order/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/the-pentagons-new-ai-playbook-treats-slow-adoption-as-a-bigger-risk-than-imperfect-alignment/](https://the-decoder.com/the-pentagons-new-ai-playbook-treats-slow-adoption-as-a-bigger-risk-than-imperfect-alignment/)

[The Pentagon's new AI playbook treats slow adoption as a bigger risk than imperfect alignment](https://the-decoder.com/the-pentagons-new-ai-playbook-treats-slow-adoption-as-a-bigger-risk-than-imperfect-alignment/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-is-deleting-user-files-when-given-full-access-and-openai-says-it-shouldnt-but-did/](https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-is-deleting-user-files-when-given-full-access-and-openai-says-it-shouldnt-but-did/)

[GPT-5.6 is deleting user files when given full access, and OpenAI says it shouldn't but did](https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-is-deleting-user-files-when-given-full-access-and-openai-says-it-shouldnt-but-did/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/open-weight-models-now-match-frontier-cyber-performance-from-just-four-months-ago-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/](https://the-decoder.com/open-weight-models-now-match-frontier-cyber-performance-from-just-four-months-ago-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/)

[Open-weight models now match frontier cyber performance from just four months ago at a fraction of the cost](https://the-decoder.com/open-weight-models-now-match-frontier-cyber-performance-from-just-four-months-ago-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/just-like-deepseek-chinas-kimi-k3-is-forcing-western-ai-labs-to-question-their-compute-advantage/](https://the-decoder.com/just-like-deepseek-chinas-kimi-k3-is-forcing-western-ai-labs-to-question-their-compute-advantage/)

[Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage](https://the-decoder.com/just-like-deepseek-chinas-kimi-k3-is-forcing-western-ai-labs-to-question-their-compute-advantage/)

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