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Nvidia and top tech companies have assembled a group calling for better support for open AI models to fend off cyberattacks in the wake of OpenAI’s rogue agent hacking Hugging Face. The Open Secure AI Alliance, unveiled Monday, comprises dozens of companies, including Microsoft, SpaceXAI, IBM, Palantir, Databricks, Dell, and…
The Trump administration is signaling that it may clamp down on Chinese open-source AI models that are the talk of the industry.On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US government is looking into whether popular open-source AI models from Chinese-based companies stole the intellectual property of their US competitors.”There’s…
The angst over China’s latest AI models is missing an important business fact: “open weight” AI is not the same thing as open-source software.Open-source software, where the code is freely shared, can be an amazing business. Think Red Hat, which IBM bought for $34 billion. Open-weight AI models are different…
The world’s AI superpowers differ on a key strategy: openness.Chinese leader Xi Jinping shared his philosophy on AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday. He called for both more regulation of the tech — as well as open-sourcing it.In a list of four observations, Xi first…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hung-Lin Lai, 34, the CEO of Lai & Turner Law Firm PLLC, who lives in Oklahoma. The following has been edited for length and clarity.When a federal ruling struck down the $100,000 H-1B fee on Monday, I was relieved.Many lawyers were…
