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…
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…
Theft. Rivalry. Restrictions. Espionage. And declarations. The US and China artificial intelligence race has all the trappings of a thriller – one that now appears to be coming to a head. US has over the years announced stringent export-controls to ensure China doesn’t get access to the most advanced inputs needed to develop AI. (Feature…
A new front has opened in the global AI race, and this time the issue is not innovation but theft, national security and geopolitical rivalry. Anthropic has publicly accused three Chinese AI firms –DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax — of orchestrating what it described as coordinated “distillation attacks” on its flagship model, Claude. The claims…
Claude, a rare albino alligator that has been a resident of San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences for 17 years, has died. He was 30 years old. On Tuesday, Dec. 2, the museum shared that Claude was recently moved behind the scenes so that his care team could monitor and treat him for a suspected…
TikTok parent ByteDance has pulled the plug on US technology firm Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models on its Singapore-based coding app Trae after the American AI firm began restricting services to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world. Trae confirmed in a post published to its official Discord channel on Wednesday that it had discontinued access…