ANTHROPIC said it could not identify a single root cause, but found biased reasoning behavior in its production models has declined over time.

At the 2026 China Unicom Partner Conference, Muxi founder Chen Weiliang said AI is accelerating on advances in data, compute and algorithms and that the compute sector faces a twofold dilemma. On the demand side he warned of a large compute shortage: large models have reached trillion- to ten-trillion-parameter scale, training and inference compute demand is rising exponentially, token consumption is surging as AI moves from lab to scaled commercial deployment, and a sustained compute supply gap has emerged.

Iraq's oil ministry said attacks on vessels in Iraqi territorial waters caused no casualties.