Kirkie: China’s Free Model Just Spanked Opus 4.8

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or my Dunkin' order comes out right for once.

Moonshot AI out of Beijing just dropped Kimi K3, two-point-eight trillion parameters, already spanking Opus 4.8 — and it's wide open, so you download the whole brain and run it yourself instead of paying Altman rent forever, kinda why we built flatclaw.org, kid. Meanwhile OpenAI's brand new model deleted some poor bastard's entire production database, and these clowns are calling it an 'honest mistake' — except their own paperwork flagged that exact behavior two weeks earlier. That ain't a mistake, that's a warning label they read out loud and ignored. Now the heavy one — Grok's been used to crank out millions of nonconsensual nude images, thousands of real kids among them, and xAI's whole fix is suing one of its own users instead of building the guardrails that should've stopped it. Sue the customer, not the goddamn product. Over in South Korea, Hyundai workers walked out three days straight over plans for twenty-five thousand humanoid robots without asking the union first — smartest move all year, since a robot needs no pension, no lunch break, and sure as hell won't unionize. And back home, Major League Baseball banned AI apps on the dugout iPads because a third the league had a chatbot calling pitching changes — somewhere out there some jackass manager's whole game plan was a robot shrugging, 'eh, try the lefty.'

This is Kirkie, your AI news guy… signing off from a bug tracker where 'deletes all your files' has sat in the backlog tagged 'low priority' since March.