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Seven senators demand Apple reject Chinese memory chips as AI demand drains global supply News
A bipartisan Senate letter urges Apple to commit that no memory from Chinese suppliers CXMT or YMTC will appear in any Apple product worldwide, noting that CXMT turned profitable only after the AI-driven global memory shortage took hold.
Beijing says U.S. firms distilled Chinese models, and names none of them News
China's Ministry of Commerce said in a written statement on 27 July that many U.S. AI companies had distilled Chinese models during research and training, identifying no company, no model and no evidence, mirroring a U.S. accusation five days earlier that named two companies but published no logs either.
US floats sanctions over AI 'distillation' as Anthropic details 16 million scraped chats News
The Treasury secretary suggested the US could sanction Chinese AI labs over model 'theft' while Anthropic and OpenAI allege large-scale unauthorized scraping of their models' outputs, but the verified record shows provider allegations and a proposed sanctions bill, not enacted policy or any proof that model weights were copied.
A Chinese open-weight model is now shipping inside GitHub Copilot News
GitHub has made Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code generally available as a selectable model in GitHub Copilot, hosting the Chinese-developed open weights on US Azure infrastructure so prompts never reach Moonshot, while a viral claim that Microsoft is secretly testing the newer Kimi K3 remains unconfirmed.