AI Arms Race Theft Misuse Open‑Source Scrutiny
The saga tracks a global scramble over AI model theft, misuse, and safety, pitting US agencies against Chinese firms and sparking calls for tighter regulation. After the latest episode, the focus has shifted to open‑source security benchmarks, yet fears of catastrophic loss of control and bio‑weapon misuse persist.
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Base Labs partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire to launch open-weight AI safety standard
Base Labs, the research arm of AI inference provider Baseten, announced a new safety‑infrastructure standard for open‑weight models in partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI. The trio aims to…
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Anthropic reveals industrial-scale Claude distillation attacks by seven Chinese AI labs
Anthropic has disclosed that seven China-based AI laboratories, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot, conducted large-scale illicit distillation campaigns against its Claude models. These…
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US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of large‑scale model theft
U.S. intelligence agencies — the NSA, CISA and the FBI — released a joint statement alleging that six Chinese artificial‑intelligence companies have been systematically extracting capabilities from…
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