China's government blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus, even as roughly 100 employees already operate from Meta's Singapore offices and two founders face exit bans in mainland China, creating a tense standoff between the tech giant and Beijing regulators.
DeepSeek ignites a global AI pricing war by slashing its new V4-Pro model costs by 75% for developers, dropping input token prices to just $0.036 per million — undercutting OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic — as geopolitical tensions over Chinese AI development escalate.
China orders Meta to unwind its $2.5 billion acquisition of Manus AI, escalating AI tensions between Beijing and Washington while signaling a crackdown on 'Singapore washing,' a tactic Chinese tech firms use to attract foreign investment by relocating staff abroad.
China's National Development and Reform Commission blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, exposing the 'Singapore-washing' strategy used by Chinese tech founders to relocate offshore and evade scrutiny from both Beijing and Washington.
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.