America Names the Model Thieves

On Tuesday, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI issued a joint advisory naming six Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) as running industrial-scale "distillation" attacks against U.S. frontier models since at least late 2024, "likely" with "Chinese government awareness." Continue Reading →
Alibaba officially rolled out Wan3.0, its latest AI video generation model, which can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages. Alibaba says the public beta (live since August 6) has already been used in short drama and film production, advertising, tourism promotion, and music videos. Continue Reading →