The ban largely affects U.S. imports from China, which currently dominates the global market for making humanoid robots and solar inverters.

Either Moonshot is oblivious to the dangers of the path its skirting, or egregiously indifferent. After all, why else would it choose to double down on the same furtive strategy that worked for the Kimi K3 model, and likely will for the Kimi K4 as well, but at huge geopolitical costs, risking the utter wrath of the Trump administration in the process. Moonshot is trying to furtively leverage an even bigger stash of compute resources from NVIDIA to train its upcoming Kimi K4 model As we explained in a recent post, Moonshot has just unveiled its brand-new, open-source Kimi K3 model, […]

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In a dramatic development that should surprise no one in hindsight, a high-level official in the Trump administration has just declared that Moonshot's Kimi K3 model has been distilled from Anthropic's Fable, and further trained on NVIDIA's GB300 GPUs in Thailand. Michael Kratsios asserts that Moonshot covertly owns some NVIDIA GB300 servers, and accessed additional GB300 GPUs in Thailand to train its Kimi K3 model As we reported recently, the proclivity of China's AI labs to distill frontier US models is raising hackles within the Trump administration, especially given the fact that there is no easy way of preventing this. […]

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Ever since Microsoft transitioned its Copilot Cowork offering to a metered pricing architecture, where you pay for the number of tokens consumed, it has been eyeing open-source models from China with particular interest, especially given the materially lower inference costs that such models entail. Now, a new report suggests that Microsoft might add Moonshot's Kimi K3 model to Copilot, risking the ire of the Trump administration in the process. Microsoft is working to add Kimi K3 model to its Azure cloud services, while its engineers continue to evaluate the model for a deployment within Copilot According to The Information, Microsoft […]

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A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.

The Trump administration's erratic approach to AI policymaking has left companies across the industry with little clarity about what will govern future model releases.

The Trump administration's moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.

FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.

China's ongoing ability to access advanced AI chips from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD has remained a hard-to-crack conundrum in Washington for quite some time now. Even so, the Trump Administration now appears to be tightening the proverbial screws on these advanced chips by chopping off a major loophole that has allowed Chinese companies to circumvent US-led export controls. The Trump administration is looking to ban the foreign subsidiaries of Chinese companies from accessing AI chips from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD Back in May 2025, the Trump administration created a loophole of sorts for Chinese companies by […]

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The U.S. government is sitting on dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. It's hoping startups can find a use for it.

The move to block the acquisition of the cloud company that hosts the Dutch digital ID service comes as Europe continues to reduce its reliance on U.S. technology.

The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.

Sean Plankey has requested to withdraw his name to run the U.S. cybersecurity agency after a tumultuous year of chaotic temporary leadership.

Some lawmakers are calling for widespread reforms following years of surveillance scandals and abuses across successive U.S. administrations. But even if the spy law known as Section 702 expires on April 30, the government's spy powers will not automatically lapse.

The budget proposal would force CISA to operate with a significantly lower budget than previous years, citing the government's claims that the election misinformation programs were used to "target the President."

FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.

A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new job.

In an alleged drafted proposal, the U.S. government would play a role in every chip export sale regardless of which country it's coming from.