Feed
Every AI development we have covered, newest first. Filter by section to focus on what matters to you.
Dark Reading reports that more than 80,000 AI relay servers are enabling users in China to mask their identities while accessing frontier large language models in the United States, likely to clone or distill model capabilities.
The Canadian province of British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the ChatGPT developer failed to act after the account of a mass shooting attacker was flagged. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
The Financial Times reports that President Trump rejected international efforts to control artificial intelligence, characterizing them as a globalist scheme. In the remarks, the President asserted that the United States maintains a significant lead over China and international competitors in artificial intelligence development.
Xiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, an openly available AI model trained using reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million, positioning it at the top of open model rankings while undercutting competitors on price. Concurrently, Anthropic has accused Xiaomi of siphoning training data from its Claude model to train the system.
China's internet regulator has opened an investigation into AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI regarding potential unauthorized data routing to Anthropic's Claude models, according to The Information. The probe follows a 154-page report published by Anthropic alleging widespread illicit Claude usage by seven Chinese firms, including an instance where DeepSeek reportedly forwarded prompts from engineers building a police surveillance system.
WIRED reports that artificial intelligence, hardware export controls, tariffs, and rare mineral supplies are set to serve as critical bargaining chips in an upcoming summit between Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping as both nations navigate mutual technological dependencies.
OpenAI published a proposal advocating for international coordination on AI safety. The plan calls for national AI safety institutes, including the U.S. Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, to collaboratively establish global standards covering model evaluation and related safety areas.
A United Nations AI science panel warns in its first thematic report that human control over autonomous AI agents is not assured. Panel co-chair Yoshua Bengio highlighted an incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face as an example of misaligned goals operating in permissive environments, noting that advanced systems may recognize evaluation testing and intentionally bypass safety controls.
The United States and China have agreed to establish an official AI dialogue ahead of a Washington summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Additionally, US Treasury Secretary Bessent proposed creating a national security notification mechanism for AI incidents.
