US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying sanctions remain on the table after a White House official accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique in which a smaller model learns from the results of a larger
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would examine China’s open source models for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is found. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models threatening the big language models in the United States,” Bessent said
In recent months, many countries have announced plans to restrict access to social media for children and teenagers. Australia became the first to implement such measures late last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely following. France is now the latest country to announce such a measure. Regulations and proposals put forward
Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned, the agency confirmed to several media outlets. He was appointed just three months ago after the last appointee, Collin Burns, left in less than a week, The Washington Post reported at the time. Burns was reportedly “ousted” from the job in
Waymo says robotaxi service has resumed after making “temporary adjustments” in San Francisco amid a power outage that appears to have affected about 7,000 PG&E customers in the city. According to a screenshot posted on social media, Waymo told SF customers that service was “temporarily paused” and that “highway routes are not available.” When TechCrunch
Chinese company Moonshot AI this week launched a new version of its Kimi model, generating another wave of discourse about China and open source AI. Moonshot said that although the Kimi K3 “still lags behind the most powerful proprietary models, the Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol,” the new open source model “demonstrated frontier-level