NASDAQ:GOOGL 11 August 2025 - 14 August 2025

Meta’s AI Shows Signs of Self-Learning: Facebook parent Meta revealed that its latest AI systems “are beginning to improve themselves without human intervention,” a development CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed as “the first step towards achieving artificial superintelligence” uz.kursiv.media. In a policy memo, Zuckerberg noted “glimpses” of self-improvement – “slow for now, but undeniable” – emerging in recent months uz.kursiv.media. While optimistic about AI’s potential, he warned Meta will no longer openly release its most powerful models, tightening controls to manage risks uz.kursiv.media. This cautious stance comes as academia and industry race to build AIs that can rewrite their own code uz.kursiv.media, fueling debates on how to safely shepherd AI toward greater autonomy. China’s Open-Source AI Milestone: Across the Pacific, China’s AI sector notched a major achievement with startup Zhipu open-sourcing GLM-4.5, a colossal language model boasting 355 billion parameters computerworld.com. Built on a mixture-of-experts architecture, GLM-4.5 integrates “agentic” reasoning and action capabilities, enabling it to autonomously perform multi-step tasks and complex data visualization computerworld.com. The model ranked third globally on a suite of reasoning and coding benchmarks – the highest of any open-source model computerworld.com. Analysts say this underscores China’s rapid progress, with over 1,500 large AI models now developed