Chinese AI lab DeepSeek launches two powerful new flagship models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, rivaling top US models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 at a fraction of the cost — just $3.48 per million tokens compared to competitors charging up to $25 — intensifying pressure on American AI labs amid …
The White House accuses China of 'industrial-scale' AI theft as Anthropic exposes roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts tied to Chinese labs DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI, which generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude to steal proprietary data, while Congress pushes new sanctions legislation ahead of a high-stakes Trump-Xi summit where …
The Trump administration accuses China-backed actors of running an 'industrial-scale' AI theft campaign, using proxy accounts to steal capabilities from American models like Claude and Gemini, with OpenAI and Anthropic confirming attacks by firms including DeepSeek ahead of Trump's upcoming Beijing visit.
Palantir releases a bold 22-point manifesto defending AI weapons development and Western military dominance, arguing Silicon Valley has a moral obligation to the nation that enabled its success, while critics warn the document represents the dangerous public ideology of a company that directly profits from the very defense and immigration …
Anthropic briefs the Trump administration on its new Mythos AI model, deemed too dangerous for public release due to its powerful cybersecurity capabilities, as co-founder Jack Clark emphasizes government transparency on advanced AI is critical for national security.
A perfect storm of surging AI token demand, a 48% spike in GPU costs, and war-driven semiconductor supply chain disruptions are pushing the AI industry to a breaking point, with OpenAI's token demand exploding from 6 million to 15 billion per minute and Anthropic restricting access to its latest model.
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a massive AI data center in Guangdong powered by 10,000 homegrown Zhenwu chips, signaling China's aggressive push toward semiconductor self-sufficiency as U.S. export restrictions cut off access to advanced Nvidia hardware.
OpenAI is calling on California and Delaware attorneys general to investigate Elon Musk for alleged anti-competitive behavior, claiming he is coordinating with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to sabotage the company ahead of an April 27 trial, while potentially benefiting his own xAI platform and Grok AI product.
Iranian missile strikes have taken down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai, with Amazon declaring multiple zones 'hard down' and engineers scrambling to migrate affected workloads, while broader disruptions to critical materials flowing through the Strait of Hormuz now threaten the global semiconductor supply chain.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits he 'miscalibrated' public distrust over AI-government partnerships, defending his company's Pentagon deal while arguing democratic institutions must oversee AI and calling for government dominance in national security AI decisions.