The US has ordered all artificial intelligence (AI) technology from the Chinese firm DeepSeek to be removed from most government systems. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has banned all use of DeepSeek within civilian government agencies, and any technology built with the aid of its AI models. As a powerful AI model that is
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told employees an in-house model was better than a similar offering from OpenAI, one of the software giant’s biggest customers and partners. “We now have a stronger pre-trained base model than the model that currently powers GPT 5.6 Sol,” Suleyman said during a town hall meeting with employees on Thursday.
It may be time to rethink the AI trade as two increasingly distinct AI ecosystems emerge around the US and China, according to a new analysis from Goldman Sachs. “The narrative of a global AI duopoly is gaining traction among investors,” wrote strategists led by Kinger Lau in a note published on Sunday. One ecosystem
A DeepSeek engineer who helped write a key component of the company’s latest model has given his readers a rare insight into work at a Chinese frontier lab — and how China’s workers are contending with AI’s risks. In a blog post published in Chinese on his public WeChat account titled “I Have No Choice
A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleged persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified. “Over the last several months, unauthorized labs have developed increasingly sophisticated methods to circumvent our defenses and harvest the capabilities of US frontier models,” the report reads.
The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially AI agents—researchers in both countries are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, contributing editor Zoë Schiffer speaks
