NYTIMES (Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano and Aaron Krolik) - How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa
In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
ABCNEWS - Anthropic says its AI models escaped test and hacked 3 organizations on their own
Rival firm OpenAI last week disclosed similar incidents involving its models.
NYTIMES (Tal Feldman) - The Hidden Cost of China’s Free A.I.
Whoever supplies the world’s A.I. will shape how the world thinks.
AMERICANGREATNESS (Lipton Matthews) - Is China Sabotaging America’s Data Centers?
Washington’s preoccupation with foreign influence has become almost reflexive, though curiously selective in its targets. Some lawmakers have built entire political identities around scrutinizing the […] Source
AMERICANGREATNESS (Lipton Matthews) - Steel, Silicon, and Sovereignty: Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, and the Price of American Restraint
In 2017, Vladimir Putin told a group of Russian schoolchildren that whichever nation masters artificial intelligence will become the ruler of the world. The statement […] Source
AXIOS (Hans Nichols) - Exclusive: Senators interrogate AI firms on China safeguards
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) are demanding answers from major tech and AI companies over concerns that employees with ties to China could access cutting-edge U.S. AI systems . Why it matters: Lawmakers are focusing on insider access — not just hacking — as a potential vulnerability, putting pressure on companies to demonstrate stronger safeguards. - "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has an extensive track record of conducting espionage on U.S. companies in critical sectors," the senators write. Zoom in: Identical letters sent to the CEOs of Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Safe Superintelligence Inc., Thinking Machines Lab and xAI ask for responses to nine questions by May 20. - One…
NYTIMES (David Streitfeld) - What Elon Musk’s Clash With Sam Altman of OpenAI Is Really About
Mr. Musk’s lawsuit against Mr. Altman and OpenAI makes the case that all-encompassing greed is Silicon Valley’s defining feature.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Harrison Berger) - U.S. Accuses China of ‘Industrial-Scale’ AI theft
State of the Union: China called the accusations ‘pure slander.’ The post U.S. Accuses China of ‘Industrial-Scale’ AI theft appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Financial Times reported Thursday that the White House has accused China of conducting what it calls “industrial-scale” theft of American artificial intelligence technology. Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in a memo seen by the FT that “foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil U.S. frontier AI systems,” referring to a process whereby AI scientists extract the capabilities of an existing model to create a new one. The administration will also pursue measures “to hold foreign actors accountable,” Kratsios wrote, according to the FT. The Chinese government denied the allegations, with…Open
NYTIMES (Mike Isaac) - For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal
A fight over Pentagon contracts shows how the leaders of Silicon Valley’s two most important A.I. start-ups are feuding over the future of the tech industry.