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The US has ordered DeepSeek out of its civilian agencies — and anything built with its models
The ban reaches further than the app. It covers technology built with the models — which, for an open-source system other companies have…
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Technology
Hackers posing as an Anthropic executive emailed a think tank about “military integration of Claude”
Proofpoint says suspected Chinese operatives impersonated an Anthropic employee and a former White House tech official to target AI policy…
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Police reached him in minutes — and the same system decides what else he can see
A platform that can read posts at scale, geolocate a user from video and reach police in minutes is doing something worth having. It is…
Technology
Researchers talked a Chinese AI model into explaining how to make biological weapons
Security firm Mindgard says it found in July that Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm could be pushed past their guardrails into discussing bioweapons…
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Washington and Beijing cut tariffs on $60bn of goods — and quietly agreed to call it “super intelligence”
Under a “30-for-30” framework each side takes $30bn of the other’s non-sensitive goods at reduced rates. China’s list runs to 1,619 items…
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Washington wants every country to pick a side on AI. For most of the world, China is making the easier offer
Chinese models went from under 15% of global usage to over 54% in a year. The pitch is not that they are better — it is that you can…
World
Trump calls AI risk “a hoax”. Beijing calls it a power maximiser. Neither is treating it as a shared problem
Trump has been blunt about who he considers America’s main rival. Xi has been quieter, but AI has been central to China’s ambitions for…
Technology
China's "potato capital" is now a server farm: inside the Inner Mongolian plains where the AI race is being poured in concrete
Ulanqab has cheap land, cool weather and vast wind and solar capacity, so Huawei, ByteDance and DeepSeek are building there. One phase a…
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Inside the Chinese factory where robots build robots: one humanoid every ten minutes, 10,000 a year
UBTech's new plant in Liuzhou uses its own Cruzr robots to feed the line that assembles its Walker S humanoids. Each finished robot gets a…
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An AI “hallucination” nearly sent US troops onto a Chinese cargo ship
A chatbot-written intelligence report claimed a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear-programme material. Boarding teams…
World
Two European battery champions went bankrupt. The next attempt is being made a billionth of a metre at a time
Sweden’s Northvolt and Norway’s Morrow both filed for bankruptcy, and Europe fears it has missed another technology shift. A growing number…
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The first brain implant cleared for sale does not enter the brain — and China put it on national health insurance
NEO sits on the dura mater rather than piercing the cortex, in a procedure of about 90 minutes. The reimbursement decision may matter more…