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US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign
Security

US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign

The NSA, CISA and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of siphoning capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Alibaba plans $10B Hong Kong share placement to fund AI buildout
Business

Alibaba plans $10B Hong Kong share placement to fund AI buildout

The raise would rank among the largest secondary equity offerings in Hong Kong this cycle, earmarked for AI infrastructure and model spend.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Ulanqab emerges as China's biggest AI data center hub with 12.5GW pledged
Business

Ulanqab emerges as China's biggest AI data center hub with 12.5GW pledged

DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are among the Chinese firms racing to build in the Inner Mongolian city, dwarfing OpenAI's 10GW Stargate footprint.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Apple trained a custom China AI model with Alibaba, Reuters reports
Business

Apple trained a custom China AI model with Alibaba, Reuters reports

The partnership would make Apple the first US company approved to offer a proprietary AI model in China, ahead of an Apple Intelligence rollout.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Apple wires Mac users in China into Alibaba's Qwen AI service
Business

Apple wires Mac users in China into Alibaba's Qwen AI service

Apple has cleared the way for Mac users in China to connect to Alibaba's Qwen models, its latest workaround for a regulatory wall that blocks its own AI stack.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model rivaling Claude
Models

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model rivaling Claude

Alibaba's largest model to date ranks second only to Anthropic's Fable 5 on Arena.AI, with open weights due next week.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
White House and Commerce Department split on how to curb Chinese AI distillation
Security

White House and Commerce Department split on how to curb Chinese AI distillation

After Moonshot's Kimi K3 rivaled top US models, the Trump administration is weighing presidential action while Commerce pushes back.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 close the gap on OpenAI and Anthropic
Analysis

Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 close the gap on OpenAI and Anthropic

Six of OpenRouter's top 10 tools are already Chinese. The latest releases from Moonshot and Alibaba shouldn't be shocking anyone.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Moonshot and Alibaba unveil open-weight rivals to GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5
Models

Moonshot and Alibaba unveil open-weight rivals to GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5

Kimi K3 lands at 2.8 trillion parameters, Qwen3.8 at 2.4 trillion, and both will release weights that US labs keep locked down.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Apple Intelligence cleared for China launch with Alibaba's Qwen
Business

Apple Intelligence cleared for China launch with Alibaba's Qwen

The Cyberspace Administration of China signed off on Apple's AI stack after a deal to route Chinese requests through Alibaba's Qwen model.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
PixVerse raises $439M at $2B valuation, betting video generation is a two-horse race
Business

PixVerse raises $439M at $2B valuation, betting video generation is a two-horse race

The Singapore startup pulled Alibaba into its Series C extension and now claims 150 million registered users on its consumer app.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

China flags Anthropic's Claude Code as a security back-door risk

Beijing's cybersecurity platform tells users to uninstall or upgrade Claude Code versions 2.1.91 through 2.1.196, released April 2 to June 29.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Kuaishou's Kling AI raises $2.8B with Alibaba and Tencent backing
Business

Kuaishou's Kling AI raises $2.8B with Alibaba and Tencent backing

China's two largest internet groups jointly bankroll a video-generation unit inside a rival platform, an unusual alignment against OpenAI's Sora.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Business

Alibaba moves to ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code

The Chinese cloud giant is cutting off internal access to Claude Code as US export controls tighten around frontier AI tools.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Springboards launches Flint, an LLM built to escape the chatbot groupthink rut
Models

Springboards launches Flint, an LLM built to escape the chatbot groupthink rut

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for a random number between 1 and 10 and you'll almost always get 7. Flint answered 3.7916.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of 28.8M-query distillation attack on Claude

A letter to the Senate Banking Committee calls it the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Security

US probes whether Nvidia chips reached Alibaba through Thailand

American officials suspect restricted Nvidia accelerators were routed to Alibaba via Thai intermediaries, testing the limits of US export controls.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
DeepSeek's first funding round could value the Chinese AI lab at $45B
Business

DeepSeek's first funding round could value the Chinese AI lab at $45B

Liang Wenfeng's previously self-funded lab is raising to give employees equity, with the China Integrated Circuit fund leading.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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