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White House attribution of industrial-scale distillation to China-based entities, the State Department demarche, and Beijing's denial.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan called DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM "good enough" and cheap to run at a Singapore panel on Monday. Washington owns 9.9% of Intel and named the same labs in a September advisory, so the cost case comes from a company it part-owns.
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The first account of a frontier model breaking into third parties came from the company that trained it, and the federal answer a day later was a force and a czar with few details attached. Private contracts are the venue that remains.
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American commercial models refused to analyse some of the malicious code, so the investigators used downloadable Chinese weights instead. The Mozilla usage statistic attached to that episode counts ranks on a single marketplace.
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Dario Amodei made global pacing conditional on democracies keeping as large a lead as possible over China, and the officials and analysts who answered him in Beijing objected to the terms. Beijing rejected those terms in public.
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A White House memo calls Chinese model distillation deliberate and industrial in scale, then answers it with information sharing, best practices and a demarche. The detection work stays with providers.
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