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Chinese AI researchers are making a notable shift in how they engage with the world, flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on artificial intelligence. As researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have grown quieter online, their Chinese counterparts are stepping into that vacuum with unusual openness and visibility.

Meanwhile, the question of accountability in AI is getting louder. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue is calling on AI firms to answer for rogue bots after his company was targeted in a cyberattack. He warned against letting such incidents become normalized, arguing that the industry has a responsibility to address the downstream harms its tools can enable.

And on the infrastructure side, HashiCorp has launched tfpolicy, a new policy-as-code framework built directly into Terraform using HCL. Now in public beta, it aims to bring governance controls into the same workflow developers already use, eliminating the friction of managing separate tools and languages for compliance enforcement.

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