A company that trained its AI engines using content from IP theft is unable to compete against another company built on IP theft.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-suddenly-thinks-intellectual-property-theft-is-not-cool-actually-amid-deepseeks-rise-154249605.html

Related: Apparently it’s IP theft all the way down in the race to the bottom.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/alibaba-releases-ai-model-it-claims-surpasses-deepseek-v3-2025-01-29/

There’s no such thing as a backdoor that only works when ‘good guys’ use it.

Brief: A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.

Source: Exclusive | U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack – WSJ (archived due to paywall)