China Is Copying America's AI. It May Be Handing Over Its Secrets to Do It.
Washington accuses Chinese firms of "industrial-scale distillation" of US models. But copying Claude means pumping millions of live queries through it, and those queries carry real Chinese engineering, code and credentials. The quieter risk runs the other way: the copying may be leaking a live map of China's industry back to America.
Read full story →The Slowdown Call Met the Market and the President. The United Front Cracked.
A week after AI's biggest names asked to tap the brakes, the world outside the labs answered. Chip stocks tumbled 6 percent, Trump branded the safety fears a "hoax," and Zuckerberg and LeCun openly broke ranks.
Read full story →Nvidia Is Letting Rivals Into Its Racks. It Owns the Road They Drive On.
Nvidia is wiring a competitor's inference chip, and possibly Apple's future servers, into its own systems through NVLink Fusion. It looks like a concession until you follow the money to who still collects the toll on everything else.
Read full story →The AI Boom's Bill Just Arrived at the $400 Phone.
Data centers are hoovering up the world's memory chips, and the shortage has reached ordinary phones and laptops. On a budget handset, memory can now be 60 percent of the cost, and some makers are testing for fakes.
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AI Is Now Hungry Enough to Keep the Coal Plants Burning
On Monday the EPA scrapped the rules meant to force power plants to cut carbon, days after federal scientists confirmed the hottest US summer on record. The stated reason was climate denial, but the real driver is simpler: data centers could soon eat 11 percent of US electricity, and AI runs around the clock.
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The Jobs Apocalypse Was Called Off. Look at the Bottom Rung.
This week the headlines declared the AI jobs apocalypse postponed, and the top-line data agrees: a million new roles, unemployment near a 50-year low. But the same week's research shows the real damage has moved to two places averages hide, entry-level hiring that has "fallen off a cliff" and paychecks quietly squeezed.
Read full story →14 – 20 September 2026
China Is Copying America's AI. It May Be Handing Over Its Secrets to Do It.
Read full story →7 – 13 September 2026
Washington Wants to Ban China's AI. The Bill Would Land at Home.
Read full story →31 August – 6 September 2026
24 – 30 August 2026
A Mystery Model Topped the Coding Charts. It Was Running on Banned Chips.
Read full story →17 – 23 August 2026
