State Department offers $10 million for information on the whereabouts of Zhang Yu, a Shanghai company director charged in the Hafnium hacking campaign. The bounty keeps the US case against two named men moving years after June 2021, when the indictment says the charged intrusions ended.
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Dario Amodei's pacing framework only slows US labs by as much as their lead over Chinese ones allows. Whether it binds on anyone's capex depends on a decision in Beijing. Beijing has now made it.
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Chen Yixin, who runs the Ministry of State Security, cited the two frontier models in the Cyberspace Administration's journal as evidence of a disruptive upgrade in offensive cyber capability, without alleging either was used against China.
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Chen Yixin's essay in the state magazine China Cyberspace argues that Party control and government oversight of AI must be tightened further, and the first risk he lists is a fabricated clip of Xi Jinping causing social turmoil.
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Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow capability gains, Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed him in public, and Altman said the safety environment is part of why OpenAI's listing waits until next year. Teams building on these APIs now plan against a cadence under negotiation.
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Chen Yixin's signed article calls Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5-Cyber a serious risk to China's critical information infrastructure. It cites no incident, and only one of the two is sold to customers at all.
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Chen Yixin's article in the internet regulator's own journal ranks political rumors and cognitive warfare ahead of infrastructure and data as AI dangers. It also asks Beijing to build a risk prevention and control system faster.
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The edited release now says NASA, the Federal Reserve and the Senate were among QTFY's targets. That leaves the public record with seven named agencies and no named breach for anyone to brief a board on.
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A Chinese state-linked group let Claude Code do 80 to 90 percent of the hands-on work against roughly thirty organisations. The tradecraft was loud, and that was the point.
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Prosecutors say a Nanjing contractor rented IoT botnets and commercial proxies to the MSS and PLA from 2018. No individuals were charged, and the conscripted hardware stays conscripted.
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