Beijing blocks Meta’s $2 billion takeover of AI startup Manus
China’s top economic planner has moved to block Meta’s roughly $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, ordering the parties...
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U.S. to tighten enforcement against Chinese firms accused of extracting capabilities from American AI models
The Trump administration signaled a tougher posture toward Chinese technology firms it says are siphoning capabilities from U.S. artificial intelligence...
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Senate hears ex-CIA officer say Google engineer funneled cutting-edge AI trade secrets to China, fueling national-security alarm
A former CIA officer told a Senate panel that a Google software engineer stole advanced AI trade secrets to benefit...
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White House says China-linked groups are running industrial-scale campaigns to copy U.S. AI models
The White House accused China-based entities of orchestrating “industrial-scale” efforts to copy proprietary U.S. artificial-intelligence systems through model distillation, according...
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Sony’s ‘Ace’ Robot Starts Beating Table Tennis Pros, Hailed as a Milestone for AI and Robotics
Sony says its table-tennis robot, Ace, has reached expert human performance and occasionally defeats professional players—an advance the company calls...
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Amazon deepens Anthropic alliance with multibillion-dollar investment and Trainium commitments
Amazon said it will invest $5 billion in Anthropic, with as much as $20 billion more tied to milestones, as...
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Silicon Valley’s AI Agents Stumble: Token Waste and Complex, Costly Systems
Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents, but the economics and engineering remain fraught. At back-to-back industry events, executives and...
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Study flags questionable data behind dozens of AI tools for predicting disease risk
A new analysis warns that dozens of artificial-intelligence models built to predict stroke and diabetes risk were trained on datasets...
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Chinese boycott of top AI meeting highlights widening U.S.–China rift in AI research
China’s top state-backed science group is urging researchers to skip this year’s NeurIPS conference after organizers briefly adopted a policy...
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Inside the creator of Iran’s viral Lego-style AI clips—and why analysts call them potent propaganda
A small Iranian media outfit is producing viral, Lego-style AI videos that experts say amount to sophisticated propaganda aimed at...
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