--- title: This Just Keeps Happening | daily.dev description: A tech news roundup covering several stories: the Trump administration considering restrictions on Chinese AI models (from Moonshot and Alibaba) that can run... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-just-keeps-happening-1qtkdki6j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This Just Keeps Happening | daily.dev og:description: A tech news roundup covering several stories: the Trump administration considering restrictions on Chinese AI models (from Moonshot and Alibaba) that can run... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-just-keeps-happening-1qtkdki6j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1qTkDkI6J.png og:image:alt: This Just Keeps Happening og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This Just Keeps Happening **[TechLinked](https://daily.dev/sources/techlinked)** · 8 min read · 21 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A tech news roundup covering several stories: the Trump administration considering restrictions on Chinese AI models (from Moonshot and Alibaba) that can run locally; LG monitors triggering automatic McAfee software installation on Windows PCs without user consent; HP fined $14.4M by India's competition commission for bid-rigging and running a toner price-fixing cartel; France blocking prediction market platform Polymarket as an unlicensed gambling service; a 3D-printed Companion Cube case resurrected by a community member after Dbrand's original was cancelled; Google-backed FireSat wildfire detection satellites reaching orbit; a humanoid robot teacher being placed in a New York school district; and a Northwestern-engineered drone that becomes nearly invisible by spinning its entire airframe. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why is the US considering restrictions on Chinese open-weight AI models like those from Moonshot and Alibaba? Chinese companies such as Moonshot and Alibaba have released open-weight models claiming to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, and because these models can be downloaded and run locally for free, they are harder to contain once released. This echoes the anxiety sparked by DeepSeek's V3 and R1 release roughly a year and a half earlier, prompting the Trump administration to consider new restrictions, though the plan remains in very early, unclear stages. _Developers tracking shifts in AI model access and policy follow updates like this on daily.dev._ ### Why are LG monitor owners getting McAfee pop-ups on their Windows PCs? Connecting certain LG monitors to a Windows PC triggers automatic installation of an LG app through the Microsoft Store, which then promotes McAfee and other unwanted software. Reddit user Mags Smash first flagged the issue and posted a workaround, and Gamers Nexus later tested it, finding the McAfee pop-up appeared on 31 of 32 consecutive boots after connecting a $1,200 monitor. _Anyone wary of hardware-triggered bloatware can keep tabs on stories like this via daily.dev._ ### What was HP fined for in India and how much was the penalty? HP was fined 1.4 billion rupees, about 14.4 million US dollars, by India's Competition Commission for rigging government PC bids and fixing ink and toner prices. HP India coordinated bids with five resellers to favor an HP partner winning government contracts and ran a second scheme the regulator called a toner cartel, with WhatsApp records showing agreements on fake losing bids and pre-decided customer allocation. _Readers weighing vendor trustworthiness in procurement can find cases like this on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@starfallcodes** · 0 upvotes > AAAHHH i love when my lg monitor installs dogwater antivirus **@starfallcodes** · 0 upvotes > yo the company that made the ai teacher bought WHAT COMPANY?! **@haohmaru444** · 0 upvotes > all title are click bait ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout](https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-chinese-ai-divides-the-white-house-and-a-record-copyright-payout-srmdxts96) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [China plans to block US investment in its top AI firms 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