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Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride home for Tuesday twenty seventh twenty twenty six. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, I think we have to gird ourselves for a slew of Chinese AI releases in the coming weeks. Are AI inspired layoffs poised to sweep the tech industry? Meta goes with subscriptions, Uber wants to train AI for others, and Dario Amodai has a pretty stark warning about AI. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Hey, everybody. Seems to be deploying AI agents right now. But the thing is, sometimes AI agents mess up. They go off script or make changes you didn't authorize, forcing you to diagnose and fix things. The good news is Rubrik Agent Cloud helps prevent that extra work. It's the only platform that allows you to monitor, govern, and rewind AI agent actions. It's like an undo button for AI. It runs in the background the whole time and making sure things stay on track. On a singular platform, Rubrik helps you unleash more agents faster while mitigating risk. So if you're running AI agents and wanna rest a little easier at night, check it out. Right now, my listeners get exclusive early access to Rubrik Agent Cloud. Head to rubrik.com. That's rubrik.com. Chinese startup, Moon Shot, has released Kimi k two five, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open source peers in some tests. They also revealed that KIMI k 2.5 builds on the k two model with pretraining over 15,000,000,000,000 mixed visual and text tokens and can, quote, self direct in agent swarm with up to 100 sub agents, quoting Bloomberg. The latest iteration of Moonshot's Kimmy can process text, images, and videos simultaneously from a single prompt, the company said in a statement on Tuesday, aligning with a trend towards so called omni models pioneered by industry leaders like OpenAI and Alphabet's Google. The model known as k 2.5 joins a flurry of upgrades rolled out over the past month, reflecting a rush by China's biggest AI players to get in ahead of the next unveiling by DeepSeek, which has teased a major release in recent weeks. Its research lab has published papers by prominent staff, including cofounder Liang Wenfeng, as well as Code on GitHub. Seeking to capitalize on reignited investor appetite for the country's top tier model makers, Moonshot last month raised $500,000,000 from investors including Alibaba and IDG Capital at a post money valuation of billion according to people familiar with the matter. To satisfy pent up investor demand, the company has kicked off new rounds of financing seeking a valuation of as much as $5,000,000,000, one of the people said. That comes after recent initial public offerings by Chinese AI rivals Zipu and MiniMax Group collectively $1,000,000,000 in Hong Kong. The three firms are among a handful of front runners in a hotly contested battle among Chinese large language model makers, which at one point was dubbed the war …