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In brief Senators cited concerns that DeepSeek’s R1 model could leak U.S. user data or aid Chinese military operations. The letter requests an investigation into potential backdoors, data flows to China, and licensing violations. Some experts warn open-source models may expose enterprises to security risks even without direct state involvement. A group of Republican lawmakers…
In brief Apple is raising its U.S. investment to $600 billion over four years. A new manufacturing program expands U.S. chip and component production. New facilities are underway in Texas, Kentucky, Arizona, and more. Trump’s tariff threat on semiconductors appears to be accelerating tech reshoring, with Apple pledging substantial investment in U.S. investments to sidestep…
In brief OpenAI released its first open-source models in years, GPT-OSS-120b/20b, hyped for jailbreaking resistance. Pseudonymous jailbreaker Pliny the Liberator cracked them in hours. Pliny’s GitHub of jailbreaks has a library of prompts to “liberate” the most important AI models. OpenAI just released its first open-weight models since 2019—GPT-OSS-120b and GPT-OSS-20b—touting them as fast, efficient,…
In brief Trump Media and Technology Group is working with AI giant Perplexity. The two companies have released an AI-powered search engine for President Trump’s Truth Social platform. Trump Media has a number of crypto-related ventures. Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, is working with artificial intelligence giant…
In brief Users can easily bypass age checks and generate explicit content with minimal input. xAI’s tool violates its policies banning pornographic depictions of real people. Over 34 million images have been created, raising major legal and ethical concerns. An AI video tool from Elon Musk’s xAI is producing nude deepfakes of celebrities—including Taylor Swift—with…
In brief Two Chinese nationals are accused of skirting export controls by sending high-end GPUs to China. Prosecutors say the defendants routed shipments through Asia to hide their true destination. The men face 20 years in federal prison if convicted. Two California men are facing federal charges for allegedly funneling high-performance AI chips to China…
In brief OpenAI open-sourced two mega-models under Apache 2.0, shattering licensing limits The 120B-parameter model runs on a $17K GPU; 20B-parameter version works on high-end gaming cards Performance rivals GPT-4o-mini and o3—beats rivals in math, code, and medical benchmarks OpenAI released two open-weight language models Tuesday that deliver performance matching its commercial offerings while running…
In brief Google is launching Kaggle Gaming Arena with top AI models facing off in a live-streamed chess tournament. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others will compete in bracket-style matches judged by skill-based rankings. The tournament will test AI reasoning under pressure, with move logic and strategy revealed to the public. On Tuesday, Google will launch…
In brief Cloudflare accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth crawlers” to evade bans, rotating IP addresses and mimicking regular browsers to access blocked websites. Cloudflare delisted Perplexity from its verified bots program and deployed new technical defenses to catch and block deceptive scraping. Perplexity denies the claims, calling Cloudflare’s evidence a “sales pitch” and disputing…
In brief The agent uses a “Proof of Attribution” system to make its decisions transparent and fully auditable. Unlike most AI crypto tools, this agent won’t act unless its data sources are verified and traceable. The rollout starts in 60 days, aiming to make AI in crypto safer, and trustworthy. While most crypto bots rush…
