• China’s leader, Xi Jinping, promoted open-source AI in a speech on Thursday.
• “We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open-source,” he said.
• While most leading US models are closed, Chinese models such as Kimi K3 and Z.ai’s GLM 5.2 are open.

The world’s AI superpowers differ on a key strategy: openness.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping shared his philosophy on AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday. He called for both more regulation of the tech — as well as open-sourcing it.

In a list of four observations, Xi first called for a “principle of openness.”

“We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open-source, openness, collaboration, and sharing,” Xi said.

Many of the biggest Chinese models are open-source, including DeepSeek, the company that surprised Silicon Valley last year. More recent buzzy competitors — like Kimi K3 and Z.ai’s GLM 5.2 — are also open source.

Meanwhile, American labs mostly operate private, closed-source models. Meta open-sourced its general Llama models, but not its proprietary Muse Spark model. Though “open” is in its name, OpenAI’s models are, in fact, closed.

Anthropic’s models are also closed-source. CEO Dario Amodei said in 2023 that open-source models were going down a “dangerous path,” because the companies cannot moderate usage or revoke access.

Xi, however, had a different take. “China is ready to be more open, take more practical actions, and assume a more visionary perspective,” he said in his speech.

His second observation called for global regulation of AI, ranging from “technological monitoring” to “early response systems.” He also took a quick dig at the US for its AI protectionism.

“We should jointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the feud of AI or placing one country’s security over that of others,” Xi said.

Indeed, US leaders have long been cautious of China’s advancements. President Donald Trump delayed one of his executive orders because he believed the order could diminish US companies’ lead over China in the AI race.

China hasn’t always been so happy to share. The Chinese government, for example, ordered Meta to unwind its acquisition of Manus, a Chinese AI agent startup that had relocated to Singapore.

Xi also said we should use AI to “increase understanding, tolerance, exchanges, and sharing.”

Earlier in his speech, Xi posed a series of big questions that needed answers. One question: How do we “realize AI for all when the divide keeps widening?”

He seemed to answer that in his fourth observation — that the world should “advocate solidarity and improve global governance.”

“We must carry out extensive international cooperation and help Global South countries with capacity building to bridge the AI and digital divides,” Xi said.

He vowed to provide 5,000 AI training and seminar opportunities to countries with less advanced AI technology.

• As a bridal makeup artist, I focus on hydration and luminosity for a perfect wedding-day look.
• Products like sheet masks and Laneige’s Glowy Makeup serum plump and hydrate the skin.
• I rely on a long-wearing Nars foundation and Charlotte Tilbury products for great bridal makeup.

In nearly a decade of working as a makeup artist, I’ve helped many clients look fantastic on their wedding day.

Doing bridal makeup comes with several challenges, since the final look needs to look amazing in photos and last for a long time — through tears, kisses, and sweat.

For me, a great face of makeup starts with thorough skincare prep and involves lots of hydrating, long-wearing products.

Here are a few products I swear by for a fantastic wedding-day look.

Sheet masks are an important part of skin prep.

Right off the bat, I spend a lot of time (and money) on skin prep because a bride’s base can make or break her makeup.

So, I start by applying a sheet mask to my client to help them relax while getting their face ready for more products.

Sheet masks are great because I can tailor them to each person’s needs. I’ve found that the right sheet mask can add hydration and brightness, plus help reduce the appearance of uneven skin tones and blemishes within minutes.

Fresh’s Deep Hydration oil-infused serum is perfect for plumping up the skin.

Keeping with the theme of pampering, I also like to give my brides a mini face massage to help them relax and to increase circulation.

I usually add Fresh’s Deep Hydration oil-infused serum to my hands, apply it to the bride’s face, and watch it glide on the skin like a dream.

This serum gives the skin an intense boost of hydration and a dewy, plump look — the key to the “glow-from-within” look all brides love.

Mehron Skin Prep Pro ensures that makeup doesn’t budge.

Ever wonder how brides are able to have their makeup done in the morning and still look flawless at the after-party?

The Mehron Skin Prep Pro might be the best-kept secret among pro makeup artists. It can keep brides looking fresh after several hours.

This can help makeup last under stressful situations — including hours of taking pictures and gracing the dance floor — by creating a moisture barrier between the skin and the makeup.

Bobbi Brown’s vitamin-enriched face base serves as an incredibly smooth canvas.

This two-for-one priming moisturizer is a rich cream that leaves the skin visibly glowing and prepped for a smooth, flawless makeup application.

I also love that the Bobbi Brown vitamin-enriched face base is great for both oily and dry skin types.

Laneige’s Glowy Makeup serum creates a radiant finish.

This product name is pretty self-explanatory, and who doesn’t want glowy makeup? I intentionally use a lot of glowy products like these early on when doing a client’s bridal makeup.

I’ve found Laneige Glowy Makeup serum gives skin a radiant finish and helps makeup last longer.

Patrick Ta Major Glow body oil is great for a sun-kissed décolleté.

This Patrick Ta Major Glow body oil is my secret weapon to create healthy-looking, glowy body skin. It comes in several different shades, and I think it smells incredible.

I spray this all over my bride’s décolleté and arms to moisturize the skin and get a sun-kissed glow without any greasiness.

Nars’ Natural Radiant Longwear foundation is the best I’ve ever used.

This Nars product is my favorite foundation to use on brides, which is why I have practically every shade in my kit. I love how extensive and inclusive the shade range is.

Nars’ Natural Radiant Longwear foundation is a buildable, full-coverage formula that’s great for all skin types.

It leaves a radiant finish and promises up to 16 hours of fade-resistant wear. I’ve seen firsthand how well it can last on a bride all night long.

Anastasia Beverly Hills has cream blushes that melt into the skin like a dream.

Anastasia Beverly Hills’ cream blushes have a buildable formula, give the face a natural, radiant finish, and blend seamlessly into the skin.

These creamy blushes are easy to apply and help me create the perfect rosy flush on all skin tones.

Velour lashes are my go-to for brides who want a natural look and optimal comfort.

Velour’s falsies are perfect for all brides, whether they prefer a natural “mascara-like” look or want lashes with serious drama.

These lashes are vegan, come in a range of different styles, and have nearly invisible bands to help them look unbelievably natural.

Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Finish makes an under-eye area look airbrushed.

We can’t talk about luxury products without mentioning Charlotte Tilbury’s Flawless Finish powder.

I love applying this ultra-fine finishing product with a powder puff to create an airbrushed under-eye because it doesn’t cake or sit in fine lines.

I also keep this powder on hand for oily T-zone touch-ups to blur imperfections and reduce shine throughout the day.

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless setting spray is my final step for a fantastic makeup look.

This is another essential product from Charlotte Tilbury — and it really is my favorite setting spray to use on all my clients.

It’s very lightweight and promises to set makeup for up to 16 hours without it fading, melting off, or settling into fine lines … everything a bride needs on the big day!

I’ve found it’s hydrating and really effective at all those things, so I usually do several sprays of this as my final step when working on a client.

This story was originally published on June 18, 2022, and most recently updated on July 16, 2026.

• In search of a new dinner recipe, I tried making Ina Garten’s baked shrimp scampi.
• The ingredient list was on the longer side, but the process was much easier than I expected.
• The dish was delicious, and I especially loved the sauce — but next time, I’ll add less salt.

Easy dishes aren’t usually known for complex flavors, but leave it to the Barefoot Contessa to defy that with her simple baked shrimp scampi recipe.

Ina Garten’s take on this classic, summery seafood dish looks beautiful, has layers of flavors, and comes together in a few quick steps.

Admittedly, the recipe does require quite a long list of ingredients, but I was surprised at how uncomplicated it was, especially after I finished prepping the shrimp.

Most of the ingredients are just minced and mashed together, and then the whole thing is baked in an oven. No sautéeing required!

First, I gathered the ingredients.

This recipe’s ingredient list can be divided into two categories: items needed for the shrimp prep, and ingredients for the flavorful butter-panko sauce.

For the former, I chose frozen, deveined shrimp. Beyond that, I just needed to grab a few pantry staples: Kosher salt, black pepper, olive oil, and dry white wine. (I picked a pinot grigio.)

The butter-panko mixture is really the star of this dish, and has a lengthier ingredient list. For this part of the recipe, I needed unsalted butter, garlic, shallots, parsley, rosemary, lemon zest, crushed red pepper flakes, lemon juice, Kosher salt, black pepper, an extra-large egg yolk, and panko (flaky breadcrumbs).

I prepped my shrimp by peeling, butterflying, and marinating them.

The first step was peeling the shrimp, carefully ensuring their tails stayed on.

Next, I butterflied them — that is, I used my knife to cut a little deeper into the shrimp and pull the two halves gently apart.

Once the shrimp were ready, I put them in a simple marinade of pinot grigio, olive oil, salt, and black pepper. Then, I left them to marinate at room temperature while I moved on to prep the butter-panko mixture.

Next, it was time to make the buttery sauce.

I minced garlic, a shallot, parsley, and rosemary, and added them to a bowl with unsalted butter.

After that, I tossed in some more ingredients: crushed red pepper, lemon juice and zest, an egg yolk, panko, salt, and black pepper. I mashed all of these together until the mixture looked colorful and crumbly.

I arranged the butterflied shrimp in an oval baking dish.

Garten’s recipe calls for a 14-inch gratin dish.

I grabbed a baking dish around this size and arranged the shrimp in ovals, with each piece placed butterflied side down and the tails pointed toward the center of the dish.

Then, I poured the remaining marinade over the layer of shrimp.

I topped the shrimp with the butter and panko sauce, then baked the whole thing.

Using my hands, I broke up the butter-panko mixture into dollop-sized pieces and placed them on top of the shrimp until I had a nice, even layer. Following the featured photo in Garten’s recipe, I made sure not to cover up the tails.

Finally, I put the whole thing in the oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 minutes. Once it was finished baking, I gave the dish a final squeeze of lemon juice.

The result was a surprisingly easy, flavorful dish that I’d definitely make again.

The shrimp was a bit on the salty side for me, so I’ll try a few tweaks next time. Namely, I’ll include a touch less salt in the marinade and a bit more crushed red pepper instead.

I’d also love to try using a different dry white wine, just to see how it impacts the flavor.

The buttery panko topping, on the other hand, was my favorite part of the dish. I’m a sucker for a meal with a delicious sauce that you can easily sop up with bread, and this baked shrimp scampi definitely did the trick.

I was also surprised by the sauce’s robust blend of flavors. I knew the recipe would heavily feature butter, garlic, and lemon, so I expected that I’d mostly taste just those flavors — which would’ve been fine with me, as someone who always enjoys a garlicky, lemony dish.

However, I loved that I could taste all the other ingredients, too, from the rosemary to the red pepper flakes.

It made for an exceptionally flavorful dish: My meal was delightfully zesty, savory, and herbaceous, all at once. I’ll definitely be baking this one again this summer.

This story was originally published on November 26, 2025, and most recently updated on July 16, 2026.

• Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger called out his predecessors for their role in the chipmaker’s decline.
• Gelsinger questioned why Intel was led by executives without a strong technical background.
• Intel’s standing has rebounded over the last year after the US took a roughly 10% stake in the company.

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says he has a hunch when the chipmaker’s downfall began.

“I think one of the fundamental things is, and as you look at the great technology companies today, they’re deeply technical,” Gelsinger told “All-In Podcast” cohost Jason Calacanis during an interview taped at the Raise Summit in Paris.

Gelsinger said when he returned to Intel in 2021, he “was the first technical leader in essentially 15 years associated with it.” The former Intel chief said his predecessors had the wrong background.

“When you’re making these hardcore technical decisions that affect billions of dollars, you don’t do that through a spreadsheet,” Gelsinger said. “That’s a lousy investment unless the technology trends make it the right investment.”

Paul Otellini, who led Intel from 2005 to 2013, was the first non-engineer to lead the company, coming from the business side. Brian Krzanich, who has a degree in chemistry, replaced Otellini after working his way up from his start at a chip factory in New Mexico, and later spent decades working on manufacturing issues. Bob Swan, the final executive before Gelsinger took over, had spent decades in top financial positions, including as CFO of eBay and HP Enterprise Services.

Gelsinger also took issue with the amount of money Intel spent on dividends and shareholder buybacks before he took over. According to Intel’s financial filings, the company sent back roughly $79 billion to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends from 2015 through 2020.

“What I wouldn’t have done for another hundred billion dollars on the balance sheet?” he said.

Once a dominant player, Intel declined amid the rise of companies like TSMC and Samsung. As Reuters recounted, Intel’s leaders made fateful decisions that led to the company ceding ground to once smaller competitors like ARM and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Intel’s standing has improved drastically over the last year, following President Donald Trump‘s controversial decision for the US government to take a roughly 10% stake in the company. Nvidia, another of Intel’s competitors that has surpassed the chipmaker, also bought over roughly $5 billion worth of Intel shares in a deal announced last September, giving the world’s largest company by market cap a roughly 4% stake in Intel.

Shares of Intel are now up more than 330% over the past year, thanks to both announcements. Intel has taken a dive over the last month, though, as traders weigh concerns about the company and the broader AI buildout.

Trump’s move to take a stake in Intel continued a broader bipartisan push for the US to onshore more domestic advanced chip production amid concerns that TSMC’s base in Taiwan is too vulnerable to Beijing’s potential actions.

Gelsinger warned of the potential risks if China were to ever completely cut off energy to the island, which it still considers part of its territory.

“When you turn off a fab, it doesn’t come back on for 90 days,” he said. “The economic impact of a brownout of Taiwan is greater than the Great Depression in the world.”

• Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility arm, Moia, is launching a pilot robotaxi service in Hamburg.
• The company said it will start with 10 VW ID. Buzz vehicles with safety operators.
• Moia also plans to launch a passenger service in the US with Uber.

Volkswagen’s Moia is launching a pilot robotaxi service in Germany, marking another major automaker stepping deeper into the autonomous mobility arena.

Moia announced Wednesday that select, preregistered Hamburg residents can now book rides in a self-driving Volkswagen ID. Buzz van through the company’s app. Up to five vehicles will operate at initial launch, with the fleet expected to expand to as many as 10 cars, a Moia spokesperson told Business Insider.

Each car will have a trained safety monitor behind the wheel who can intervene when necessary. The spokesperson said Moai expects future driverless operations to be handled by the company’s remote operations center.

The pilot will function more like an autonomous shuttle — or a shared robotaxi — than a private ride like those offered by Alphabet’s Waymo. Passengers traveling in the same direction may share a vehicle, while pickups and drop-offs will take place at designated virtual stops.

The service will cover about 4 square miles within Hamburg. It will gradually expand to around 14 square miles, the spokesperson said.

“Registration was open to anyone with the Moia app, and several thousand people have already joined the waiting list,” the Moia spokesperson said. “The strong interest highlights the demand for autonomous mobility in Hamburg.”

Rides will be free during the pilot. Moia said passengers will also eventually be able to book the autonomous vehicles through Hamburg’s hvv switch public transit app.

“Our first passengers are now experiencing autonomous mobility in Hamburg’s urban traffic for the first time,” Moia CEO Sascha Meyer said in a statement. “For Moia, this marks an important milestone in the development of our European solution.”

Moia has primarily operated a human-driven, ride-pooling service in Hamburg using electric shuttles and its own booking app. In the past several years, the company has been building an autonomous-mobility platform that combines vehicles, self-driving software, fleet management, and passenger-booking technology.

The company’s recent robotaxi efforts integrate VW’s vans with Mobileye’s autonomous driving technology.

A Moia spokesperson said operating a standalone robotaxi service is not part of its broader business model. Instead, it plans to provide a ready-to-use platform to public and private fleet operators.

The pilot deployment in Hamburg is part of a government-backed venture called ALIKE, which looks at how autonomous technology could complement public services.

“The ALIKE project is funded through mid-2027,” the Moia spokesperson said. “Any future commercial deployment and its scope will depend on decisions by the responsible public transport authorities, local mobility strategies, and the regulatory framework.”

Volkswagen is not the only automaker investing in robotaxi services. Hyundai Motor Group backs Motional, which launched a pilot service in Las Vegas in partnership with Uber. Tesla is also working on its own robotaxi platform, using its vehicles and software.

A company spokesperson said Moia is targeting a European approval for the ID. Buzz in 2027 for driverless operations.

In the US, Moia plans to deploy an autonomous service with Beep, an autonomous shuttle company, and Uber.

Moia said it expects to launch the Beep service in Orlando later this quarter and the Uber service in Los Angeles before the end of the year.

• Sunday says Memo folded laundry in unfamiliar homes with a success rate above 99%.
• Its ACT-2 AI model can apply lessons learned in one setting to new homes and garments.
• The $1.15 billion startup plans to place Memo in homes through a beta this fall.

In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s hardest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before.

On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model that powers Memo, its wheeled home robot. Sunday said that Memo folded laundry successfully more than 99% of the time when tested in unfamiliar homes, and on garments it had not been specifically trained to handle.

“I think 2026 will be when the timeline for autonomous home robots shrinks in a very drastic way because of this breakthrough,” Sunday Robotics CEO and cofounder Tony Zhao told Business Insider.

For decades, home robot companies have struggled to build machines that are both reliable and adaptable. A robot may master a task in a controlled setting and falter in a new room or when handed an unfamiliar object, like folding a scarf when it’s been trained to fold jeans. Sunday says ACT-2 can carry what it learns in one environment into the next, potentially avoiding the costly process of retraining Memo for every home.

Sunday raised $165 million earlier this year at a $1.15 billion valuation.

Sunday proposed a new robotics standard

Sunday also proposed a new industry standard for measuring progress in robotics. Called a “Solve,” it is meant to distinguish reliable capabilities from flashy demos that often omit how many attempts a robot needed or the conditions under which it was tested.

“Each demo is a different robot, setting, and object, and it’s really hard to figure out if we’re progressing,” Zhao said. “It’s like apples-to-oranges comparisons.”

Under Sunday’s framework, companies would clearly state what a robot can do, where it was tested, and how much extra training or human assistance it requires in each new setting.

Sunday considers laundry folding Memo’s first Solve capability.

To reach that level of reliability, Sunday trains ACT-2 in two stages. First, it learns basic physical skills from people performing everyday tasks while wearing sensor-equipped gloves that Sunday developed in-house. The gloves cost about $200 to make and mirror the shape and sensor layout of Memo’s hands, allowing human movements to be translated more directly into the robot’s movements.

Then, Sunday’s in-house fleet of robots enables the model to learn from its mistakes. With its initial knowledge, the robot can learn new skills and improve its performance within minutes.

“Memo’s performance in our office almost perfectly transfers to its performance in the wild,” Zhao said.

He added that the company has spent the last few months testing the model in employees’ homes and Airbnbs to see how well it performed in unfamiliar environments.

Sunday competes with other home robots

Zhao, who left Stanford’s computer science Ph.D. program to build Sunday, and cofounder Cheng Chi started the company with a small team in a Silicon Valley hacker house in 2024. They chose to focus on the home because, unlike a factory, it is messy and unpredictable. Building a robot that can handle that, Zhao said, is the clearest path to physical artificial general intelligence, a term for AI capable of performing a broad range of real-world tasks as well as or better than humans.

Sunday has since grown to more than 100 employees. Conviction’s Sarah Guo, who wrote the company’s first check, previously told Business Insider that she backed the founders because they were “completely cracked researchers” with “a real commitment to building products that got deployed and an Elon-style religion on delivering a mass-consumer product.”

Sunday’s advance comes as several companies prepare to put robots in homes. Y Combinator-backed Weave Robotics plans to begin shipping Isaac 1, a $7,999 wheeled robot that folds laundry, in California this fall. 1X aims to start delivering its $20,000 NEO humanoid around the same time, while Tesla is working toward bringing Optimus into homes.

Sunday plans to place Memo in homes through a beta program this fall. Zhao declined to say how many homes would participate.

Memo will operate autonomously in homes, Zhao said, with a remote operator stepping in only when customers need help, similar to the remote assistance used by Waymo’s self-driving cars. Unlike many robotics companies, Sunday does not plan to use those interventions to collect training data from customers’ homes.

“Being fully autonomous is the best way to build trust,” Zhao said. “We are not trying to creep in a teleoperator into your home to collect your data so that we can get our model to be better.”

Sunday previously demonstrated an earlier model, ACT-1, clearing a dinner table, loading a dishwasher, and pulling a shot of espresso. The company wants ACT-2 to eventually make those capabilities more reliable, starting with laundry. It is learning to vacuum, organize toys, fasten zippers, and make coffee.

Those tasks, Sunday said, are not yet reliable enough.

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