How Washington Quietly Became the Gatekeeper for Frontier AI
The U.S. government now approves who can use Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6. Here is what that changes for everyone outside Washington.
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Super Micro Co-Founder Arrested in $2.5 Billion Chip Smuggling Scheme to China
Federal prosecutors charge three with routing Nvidia AI servers through Taiwan to China using fake documents and dummy equipment to evade export controls.
Trump's Own Commerce Department Drafts 'Diffusion 2.0' Global AI Chip Controls He Already Killed
Draft regulations would require government approval for nearly all Nvidia and AMD chip exports worldwide - echoing Biden rules Trump rescinded just months ago.
DeepSeek V4 Arrives This Week: A Trillion Parameters, Huawei Chips, and Nvidia Locked Out
China's DeepSeek is releasing V4 - a trillion-parameter multimodal model optimized for domestic chips - while blocking US chipmakers and facing distillation accusations from OpenAI and Anthropic.
DeepSeek Shuts Out Nvidia from V4 Model, Gives Huawei Weeks-Long Head Start
The Chinese AI lab is withholding its flagship model from US chipmakers while the Trump administration alleges it was trained on banned Blackwell chips.
DeepSeek's Engram: The Memory Trick That Bypasses GPU Restrictions
China's most innovative AI lab published a technique that lets large language models store knowledge in cheap system RAM instead of expensive GPU memory. It's a direct response to US export controls -- and it works.