Elon Musk publicly praises Anthropic as 'currently the leader in AI' while SpaceX locks the rival company into a massive $40 billion infrastructure deal, raising eyebrows over potential conflicts of interest and whether hosting a competitor's operations gives Musk's company unusual visibility into Anthropic's AI development.
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.
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code starting July 10, labeling it high-risk, as Anthropic simultaneously tightens restrictions blocking Chinese companies from accessing its AI models and closes loopholes that enabled unauthorized use.
OpenAI is offering the US government a $42.6 billion, 5% ownership stake in the company, as CEO Sam Altman attempts to share AI's financial benefits with the public while navigating rising tensions with the Trump administration's growing interventionist approach to the AI industry.