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Tensions between Washington and Beijing over artificial intelligence are escalating. The White House has accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build its Kimi K three system, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now warning that sanctions against Chinese AI firms could follow.
Shifting to a story that cuts closer to home for anyone in a job search, a developer discovered that a take-home coding interview project had been rigged with malware delivered through a git hook. It's a sobering reminder that the hiring pipeline itself has become an attack surface, and candidates have few defenses against it.
Perhaps the most consequential story today involves the Department of Justice, which is reportedly citing fabricated AI-generated case law in legal proceedings to keep ICE detainees locked up. When hallucinated citations enter immigration courts, the stakes aren't abstract — real people remain detained on the basis of cases that simply do not exist.
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