When the leaders of major US tech groups all echoed calls to “slow the pace” of artificial intelligence development, the underlying message targeted a specific and, in their view, uncontained threat: China. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a blunt assessment that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose great danger for the United States and…
An essay by Anthropic‘s CEO calling for a slowing down of AI development may look like a rational statement focused on safety risks, but it is really a “Cold War playbook” targeting China, the state-backed Global Times said in an editorial. In the essay published on Saturday and later endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for global coordination on slowing AI development, warning that competition with China and the military advantages of moving ahead could make such efforts difficult. Amid growing concerns that the rapid advancement of AI could pose a potential danger to humanity, Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei has raised another…
US Senator Bernie Sanders has urged President Donald Trump to go beyond slowing the pace of artificial intelligence development, calling for a pause on advanced AI and a ban on artificial superintelligence. File photo: US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping (Reuters) Sanders’ warning comes amid an extraordinary series of alarm bells from…
Claude AI Hong Kong access restricted for OKX employees. Photo by BeInCrypto Goldman Sachs and OKX have both cut Hong Kong staff off from Anthropic’s Claude AI model. The two restrictions happened months apart, but both trace back to the same geographic access rules. Anthropic restricts Claude access in Hong Kong and mainland China. OKX…
The Manus logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, with the Meta logo visible in the background. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Manus said Tuesday it will “soon resume operating as an independent company,” after Chinese regulators in April demanded Meta unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup….
Some of America’s biggest technology companies are pushing Washington to make open artificial intelligence a national priority as China continues to build its lead in the space. Their message exposes a gap in U.S. policy: America has a chip strategy for AI. Now it needs an open-model strategy. Supporters say open models can lower costs,…
Officials talking about artificial intelligence (AI) often speak in terms of the next industrial revolution or existential risks. Such rhetoric ultimately does little to capture how AI filters into the ordinary workings of a city like Hong Kong. The geopolitics of AI are no longer abstract. They are beginning to shape who can use which…
US officials alleged that Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s most advanced Fable model to develop its K3 model. (Reuters pic) WASHINGTON: A top White House official on Wednesday accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of covertly copying Anthropic’s most advanced model to build its Kimi K3. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during the 2026 Reagan National Economic Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, May 29, 2026. Caroline Brehman | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese artificial intelligence models have been distilled from…