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Garry Tan Says Leave AI Distillation Alone. Federal Agencies Disagree.
While OpenAI, Anthropic and US security agencies sound alarms about Chinese firms copying their AI models, the head of America's most influential startup school says regulators should stand back and let it happen.
US agencies name six Chinese AI firms accused of copying American frontier models at industrial scale
The NSA, CISA, and FBI say DeepSeek and five other Chinese companies have been extracting capabilities from US AI models since late 2024, potentially saving billions in development costs.

A mystery Chinese AI model spent a week fooling the internet. Now it wants 45% of your AI budget.
GLM-5.3-Flash launched anonymously, served trillions of tokens for free on Chinese chips, and costs a fraction of US rivals. That combination is forcing companies to rethink what they actually need to pay for.

China's AI Boom Has a Surprising Home: A Grassland City in Inner Mongolia
Nearly 100 data centres have opened or begun construction in Ulanqab since 2016. DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are all building there. A water crisis is already brewing.

Ramp Launches 'Router': A Service That Lets You Switch Between AI Models in One Place
The corporate expense software company is now selling access to AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and others through a single service, free through 2026, with a $26 credit to start.

DeepSeek's V4 Flash aces the leaderboards but stumbles on real work, then raises its prices
The AI model everyone called a bargain just got more expensive. New testing shows its real-world performance is patchier than its benchmark scores suggest.

OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals win over cost-conscious customers
A price war is breaking out at the top of the AI industry. American labs are cutting what they charge for their models, and the trigger is clear: cheaper tools from China are pulling customers away.

Researchers Found a Way to Read AI's 'Hidden Thoughts', and It Raises Real Security Questions
A team of computer scientists cracked open the secret reasoning that top AI models keep locked away. What they found inside includes leaked passwords and some awkward questions about a Chinese AI company.

China's AI openness claims don't hold up under scrutiny
A geoscience AI tool promoted as 'open' at a major global conference fails the basic tests for genuine openness. Researchers say the same problem runs wider than China.

Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.

Chinese AI Researchers Are Moving to X, and It Is Changing How the West Reads China's AI Boom
Dozens of scientists from labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek now post regularly on X, filling a gap left by increasingly tight-lipped Western counterparts at OpenAI and Anthropic.

US and China agree: open-source AI needs strong security, not a free-for-all
Twenty-one Pacific-rim economies signed a joint statement backing open AI models built with government-grade security checks. It's the first time ministers from the US and China have agreed on open-source AI at all.

AI Models Accelerate Cybersecurity, But Not Without Challenges
New AI models are speeding up security processes, but organisations must adapt quickly to keep up.

AI hiring tools are more likely to stereotype job applicants than humans are, new research finds
A Princeton and University of Chicago study put ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini through a simulated hiring game. The models quickly sorted fictional ethnic groups into job categories and did it far more aggressively than human test subjects did.

China's Kimi AI model rattles Wall Street and reignites the open-source debate
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is competitive with the world's best AI models, and Washington can't agree on what to do about it.