Washington, May 21 (IANS) Republican Senator Rick Scott has introduced legislation that would require the US government to determine whether several Chinese technology firms pose threats to national security.The proposed “Blocking CCP Spy Tech Act of 2026” targets a group of Chinese companies known as the “Six Little Dragons”, including DeepSeek, Game Science, Unitree Robotics, DEEP Robotics, BrainCo and Manycore Tech.The companies are based in Hangzhou, China, and are seen as part of Be…
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New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) US-based tech giant Alphabet Inc’s Google Search experienced a global outage on Tuesday morning, with users in India, the US and several other regions reporting difficulties accessing the platform.Many users attempting to use the search engine were shown a message saying, “We are sorry, but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue. Please try again later….
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) US administration said it will step up cooperation with US artificial intelligence companies to combat “industrial‑scale campaigns” by “foreign entities, principally based in China,” to steal advancements in technology, a report has said.Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in an internal memo claimed new information that foreign entities were exploiting US firms through a process known as “distillation,” a re…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed ban of the import of telecommunications and surveillance equipment of select Chinese companies deemed national security risks.FCC had already in 2022 decided to halt approvals of new models into the United States’ from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision and Dahua and now a complete ban including previously authorized devices still allowed into the US market is being proposed, a report from Channel News Asia (CN…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models are rapidly gaining global traction, raising concerns among US policymakers over potential risks to national security, supply chains, and economic competitiveness, according to a report.As per the War on the Rocks analysis, Chinese AI systems, which accounted for just 1 per cent of global workloads in late 2024, surged to nearly 30 per cent by the end of 2025.Models developed by companies such as Alibaba, along with emerging p…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) China’s popular AI chatbot DeepSeek experienced the biggest outage in its history, with the platform going offline for over seven hours overnight.Outage‑tracking platform Downdetector showed users first reporting problems on Sunday evening, multiple reports said, adding that DeepSeek’s status page acknowledged the initial issue at 9:35 pm.The platform marked the issue as resolved about two hours later, but problems recurred and were not fully fixed until 10:33 am…
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) United States-based artificial intelligence firm Anthropic accused three Chinese unicorns— DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot AI — of having illegally extracted capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own systems, a new report has said.The report from CNN Business said that the US firm alleged that the theft through a process known as distillation raised national security concerns.The modus-operandi of the alleged theft involved creation of around 24,000 fr…
Seoul, March 22 (IANS) Two South Korean artificial intelligence services have ranked among the world’s top 50 most-used generative AI tools, a report from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) showed on Sunday.Domestic telecommunications provider SK Telecom Co.’s AI personal assistant service, Adot, came in 39th in the top 50 most used generative AI web products list, according to the report from the California-based firm Andreessen Horowitz.Two AI-powered mobile apps fr…
Washington, March 18 (IANS) China’s advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous systems pose a growing national security risk, US lawmakers and industry experts said, with concerns ranging from data access and cyber vulnerabilities to supply-chain dependence and military use.At a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, Chairman Andrew Garbarino said the challenge was already unfolding “inside the United States”.He said the People’s Republic of China was moving “…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI on Wednesday unveiled two new large language models as part of India’s push to build sovereign artificial intelligence capabilities. The announcement was made at the India AI Impact Summit here, where the company said both models have been trained from scratch using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture to improve efficiency and performance.The first model, called Sarvam 30B, has 30 billion parameters. However, the company said th…