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AI’s answers on China differ depending on the language, analysis finds

AI /

It’s well-established that AI models developed by Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek censor certain politically sensitive topics. A 2023 measure passed by China’s ruling party forbids models from generating content that “damages the unity of the country and social harmony.” According to one study, DeepSeek’s R1 refuses to answer 85% of questions about subjects deemed […]

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China is reportedly keeping DeepSeek under close watch

Startups /

China appears to think homegrown AI startup DeepSeek could become a notable tech success story for the country.  After DeepSeek’s sudden rise to fame in January with the release of its open “reasoning” model, R1, the company is now operating under new, tighter government-influenced restrictions, according to The Information. Some of the company’s employees have

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Singapore grants bail for Nvidia chip smugglers in alleged $390M fraud

Government & Policy /

A judge in Singapore granted bail to three men suspected of deceiving suppliers of server computers that may contain Nvidia chips affected by U.S. export rules that bar the sale of them to certain countries, as a route to halting them being sold to organizations in China. The move comes nearly two weeks after the

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Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’

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Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies – and he wants the U.S. government to step in. Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event on Monday, Amodei said that China is known for its “large-scale industrial

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DeepSeek isn’t taking VC money yet. Here are 3 reasons why.

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DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng is in no hurry to get investment from outsiders, the WSJ reported Monday. DeepSeek is one of the hottest AI startups in the world right now after the Chinese AI company took Silicon Valley by storm with its latest model earlier this year. Unlike DeepSeek’s AI model provider counterparts, who regularly

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Eric Schmidt argues against a ‘Manhattan Project for AGI’

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In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence, also known as AGI. The paper, titled “Superintelligence Strategy,” asserts that an aggressive

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Justice Department charges Chinese hackers-for-hire linked to Treasury breach

Security /

The Department of Justice has announced criminal charges against 12 Chinese government-linked hackers who are accused of hacking over 100 American organizations, including the U.S. Treasury, over the course of a decade. The charged individuals all played a “key role” in China’s hacker-for-hire ecosystem, a senior DOJ official said on a background call with reporters,

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Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglers

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There’s lots of scrutiny involving China obtaining advanced Nvidia chips despite strict U.S. export controls, with Chinese merchants already reportedly ordering Nvidia’s powerful Blackwell GPUs. On Thursday, Singaporean police arrested 3 men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips, Channel News Asia reported. The men, two Singaporeans and one Chinese citizen, were charged with fraud over a

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Belgium investigating alleged cyberattack on intelligence agency by China-linked hackers

Security /

Belgium is investigating an alleged data breach of its state security service (VSSE) by Chinese government hackers.  In a statement sent to TechCrunch on Friday, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said an investigation into a cyberattack was opened in November 2023 after it learned about the alleged breach.  This confirms an earlier report by the

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Apple’s Developer service comes to China’s WeChat

Apps /

As part of its efforts to further invest in the Chinese market, Apple announced this week that it’s bringing its Apple Developer service to China’s WeChat app. The service includes news, announcements, and other upcoming activities for members of the developer community, which have typically been offered via Apple’s website and its own Developer app.

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