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Anthropic unveils AI jailbreak severity scale with Amazon, Microsoft, Google
Anthropic has globally redeployed its Claude Fable 5 model after the U.S. Commerce Department lifted the export controls that had kept the AI system offline for 19 days, and on Wednesday published a new industry framework for rating the severity…
Asia-wide crackdown on Nvidia chip smuggling widens with detentions, seizures
Taiwanese prosecutors have detained two employees of Super Micro Computer and released two others on bail as part of a widening investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China, while Singapore authorities separately seized a $42 million…
U.S. export bans on AI accelerate China’s push to close the gap
A new generation of Chinese artificial intelligence models is eroding the lead long held by American labs, arriving at a moment when U.S. policy decisions may be inadvertently accelerating the shift.
Anthropic to remove hidden code that flagged China-based Claude Code users
Anthropic is removing concealed detection logic from its Claude Code command-line tool after developers discovered it had been silently fingerprinting users connected from China since April 2026. The revelation, which surfaced on developer forums over the weekend, prompted an Anthropic…
Nvidia’s China AI chip share nears zero as Huawei takes the lead
Nvidia has effectively lost its dominance in China's artificial intelligence chip market to Huawei, as U.S. export controls and Beijing's push for domestic technology reshape the global semiconductor landscape.
Austria urges EU to lure Anthropic after US export controls cut access
Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization Alexander Pröll has written to European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen urging the bloc to explore the "strategic establishment and participation" of Anthropic within the European Union, following a US export-control directive that abruptly…
Asian AI firms launch Mythos alternatives amid US export ban
Two Asian AI companies unveiled products this week positioned as direct alternatives to Anthropic's most advanced models, which remain suspended under a US government export control directive now entering its third week.
Coinbase defaults to Chinese AI models as US export controls limit alternatives
Z.ai, the Beijing-based AI lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, released GLM-5.2 on June 13 — one day after the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally under a sweeping export control directive.…
Z.ai tops $128B valuation as Chinese AI model rivals Anthropic’s shuttered systems
Days after the U.S. government forced Anthropic to pull its most advanced AI models from the market, Chinese startup Z.ai has released an open-source model that rivals the best closed-source systems from Western labs, narrowing what analysts say is the…
US assures allies on Anthropic AI access at Pax Silica Summit
The European Union and India have both opened diplomatic channels with the Trump administration over access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models, after a U.S. export control directive forced the company to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all…
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of largest known attack on Claude AI
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of conducting a massive operation to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude artificial intelligence model, calling it the largest known distillation attack against the company to date, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
Nvidia’s banned AI chips double in price on China’s black market, FT reports
Prices of Nvidia's restricted AI chips have more than doubled on China's black market over the past six months, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, underscoring how U.S. export controls have created a vast scarcity premium even as they fail…
China sanctions 56 US firms over Pentagon blacklistings
China's Ministry of Commerce announced on Monday that it will place 10 American companies on its export control list, prohibiting exports of dual-use items to the targeted firms. The move came alongside a separate decision by China's Ministry of Finance…
Japan unveils AI risk plan citing Anthropic export ban
The Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on Anthropic's most advanced AI models has set off a widening international debate over how governments should regulate frontier artificial intelligence, with allies, lawmakers, and industry leaders warning the move could undermine…
UK businesses sound alarm over Anthropic AI export ban
The Trump administration's unprecedented decision to impose export controls on Anthropic's most advanced AI models has sent shockwaves through the global technology industry, with UK businesses and major tech firms pushing Washington to reverse course on restrictions that have left…
EU tech chief uses Anthropic ban to push digital sovereignty
The US government's abrupt order forcing Anthropic to suspend its most advanced AI models for all non-American users has become a rallying point for European officials seeking to accelerate the continent's technological independence, with EU Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen…
US warns ASML a top EUV chip tool may have reached China
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has raised concerns directly with senior leaders at ASML that one of the Dutch company's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines — the most advanced chipmaking tools in existence — may have made its way into China…
Anthropic opens Seoul office amid US export controls on its top AI models
Anthropic opened its Seoul office on Tuesday and announced a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT to cooperate on AI safety, even as the company's most advanced models remain disabled worldwide under a U.S. government…
SK Telecom identified as firm behind Anthropic export controls
The Trump administration's sweeping decision to bar foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's most advanced artificial intelligence models was triggered by the discovery of a South Korean telecommunications company with suspected ties to China on the firm's access list, according to…
Anthropic CEO urges G7 leaders not to ‘splinter’ on AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed G7 leaders on Wednesday at a working lunch in Évian-les-Bains, France, calling on the world's wealthiest democracies to maintain unity on artificial intelligence development rather than fracture into competing blocs. The remarks, first reported by…