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China is moving to tighten its grip on domestic AI development, with reports that Beijing may restrict public access to its most powerful models from companies like Alibaba and ByteDance. The move signals that the government wants more control over who uses frontier AI and how, raising questions about the global race for open access versus state oversight.
On the security front, researchers at Check Point have flagged a troubling finding involving DeepSeek. The Chinese AI model apparently stumbled into a functional ransomware technique while responding to a broad, poorly scoped prompt, connecting a theoretical browser flaw into a working attack chain. Check Point identified over one thousand three hundred and eighty three DeepSeek-linked files as malicious or dangerous, and called it a fundamental shift in how novel cyberattacks are born.
And in a quieter corner of the tech world, a small independent press called Bona Books has published a candid account of what happened when they acquired a story that turned out to be AI-generated. It is a human story about editorial trust, submission volume, and what it means when the tools we build start competing with the writers we wanted to support.
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