Ex-OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo, who previously warned of AI-driven extinction, now proposes a hopeful global plan to pause development of superhuman AI until 2040, paired with radical transparency measures — though he admits major resistance from AI companies is expected.
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude tools starting July 10, switching to its own AI assistant Qoder, after Anthropic accuses the Chinese tech giant of conducting the largest known AI distillation attack, escalating tensions as Anthropic moves to cut off Chinese firms from accessing its models through third-country loopholes.
Chinese AI models like DeepSeek are surging past 30% U.S. market share as businesses abandon OpenAI and Anthropic for alternatives that are up to 90% cheaper and rapidly closing the performance gap with American frontier models.
The US and China are imposing mutual AI export controls on advanced models like GPT-5.6 and Chinese lab offerings amid security concerns, but experts say quiet cooperation between American and Chinese AI developers will likely continue, as restrictions are expected to target only the most cutting-edge models while open-weight alternatives …
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warns that Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool contains a backdoor secretly transmitting sensitive user data — including location and identity — to remote servers, affecting versions released between April and June, while Anthropic disputes the claim, calling it an anti-distillation experiment amid escalating …
DeepSeek is racing to develop its own AI chips after spending a year recruiting engineers and meeting with hardware partners, aiming to break free from dependence on both Nvidia and Huawei as Chinese and American AI giants alike pursue custom silicon for greater control over their technology.
China is weighing a major policy reversal by restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models, holding talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, as U.S.-China AI tensions escalate with accusations of illegal model distillation and retaliatory bans on American AI tools.
The US lifts export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models, Google DeepMind partners with A24 in a landmark filmmaking-AI collaboration, and Tencent unleashes a massive 295-billion-parameter open-source model as US-China AI rivalry intensifies.
Chinese smart glasses startup Even Realities hits a $1 billion unicorn valuation after securing $150 million in Tencent-backed funding, with its privacy-focused G2 glasses challenging Meta's dominance in a market that surged 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026.
Nvidia's next-gen Kyber NVL144 rack system is delayed to 2028 due to manufacturing failures with a critical circuit board, leaving the AI chip giant without a large-scale solution for its Rubin Ultra chips and handing rivals AMD and Google a rare opening to challenge its dominance.