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Chinese AI startup trained model on Nvidia’s most advanced chips despite U.S. export ban

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s upcoming AI model was trained using Nvidia’s most advanced AI chip (the Blackwell), potentially violating U.S. export control rules, a senior U.S. official said 4raising fresh policy and geopolitics questions over chip access and technology competition.

Anthropic says Chinese AI companies used its Claude outputs to improve their own models

Anthropic revealed that three Chinese AI firms: DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax, conducted millions of interactions using fake accounts on its Claude model to distill and improve their own AI systems, highlighting rising global tensions over model reuse, governance and IP control.

Asian markets face pressure amid renewed AI-linked stock angst

Most Asian stock markets were set for early declines as fresh anxiety over artificial intelligence’s impact on corporate profits weighed on investor sentiment, with markets tracking weaker U.S. leads and tech sector uncertainty.