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The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced two bipartisan bills on April 23 that would give Congress direct oversight authority over US AI chip exports to China and other adversaries, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration’s handling of advanced…
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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios circulated a memo on April 23 accusing Chinese entities of conducting deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil and steal US frontier AI systems, using tens of thousands of proxy accounts…
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model on April 24, explicitly optimized for Huawei’s Ascend chip platform, on the same day the White House accused China of running industrial-scale campaigns to copy and steal American frontier…
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White House says China-linked firms used proxy accounts and jailbreaks to copy US AI models through unauthorized distillation.
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Alibaba has rolled out a preview of its most advanced AI model yet, stepping up its push into the top tier of global AI development. According to an X post from Alibaba’s Qwen team, the new model, Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview, has…
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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index shows the performance gap between US and Chinese AI models has compressed to just 2.7%, down from a double-digit lead as recently as 2023, as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 holds a 39-point Elo lead over ByteDance’s…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China possesses the massive computing power and infrastructure necessary to match the capabilities of Anthropic’s high-level AI model, Claude Mythos. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast on Wednesday, Huang dismissed the idea that…
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Hormuz oil bitcoin dynamics shifted Tuesday as the Rich Starry, a Chinese-owned, U.S.-sanctioned tanker, slipped through the Strait of Hormuz in the first known breach of the U.S. naval blockade, sending WTI crude to $90.4 a barrel on April 15.…
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The AI report that the industry watches most closely landed Monday when Stanford HAI released its 2026 AI Index, revealing that the US performance lead over China has nearly evaporated, with Anthropic’s top model leading the nearest Chinese competitor by…
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Alibaba and China Telecom are moving ahead with a new data centre project in southern China, powered entirely by the e-commerce giant’s in-house AI chips, as Beijing steps up efforts to build domestic computing infrastructure. The facility, unveiled on Tuesday,…
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Chinese AI tracking companies with ties to the People’s Liberation Army are marketing detailed intelligence on US military movements during the Iran war, built entirely from publicly available satellite imagery, flight data, and shipping records, according to a Washington Post…
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U.S. stocks inched higher on Monday, but beneath the smooth index closes, meme names, bitcoin proxies and Chinese ADRs traded like a late‑cycle minefield. U.S. equities finished Monday’s session slightly higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.36%, the…
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China’s Cyberspace Administration has ordered Apple to pull Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat from its China App Store, citing regulations that require apps with “social mobilization” capabilities to pass a government security assessment before launch. Block CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed on X…
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China’s regulators are pushing for banks to upgrade the “bank-tax interaction” model in a bid to expand financing for small businesses. According to a policy notice issued by the State Administration of Taxation and the National Financial Regulatory Administration, banks…
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A key figure allegedly behind the Huione network has been extradited to China, where he will face fraud and money laundering charges. A report from Hong Kong-based news outlet Ta Kung Wen Wei noted that Li Xiong, who was part…
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Republican senators Bill Cassidy and Cynthia Lummis have introduced a new bill that seeks to bring Bitcoin mining manufacturing back to the U.S. and support the establishment of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. On Monday, the two senators introduced the “Mined…
