State Dept: China Stealing U.S. AI Secrets

0:00It's April 25th. This is U.S. News Today, AI-powered story shaping the nation. I'm Cory with the story. The State Department just dropped a diplomatic cable pushing allies worldwide to spotlight Chinese companies stealing U.S. AI secrets. Firms like Deepseek, Moonshot AI, and Minimax are accused of using a trick called distillation, where they train cheap knockoff models on outputs from, pricey American ones. Here this week, the White House echoed those claims, building on open AI's February alert to lawmakers that Deepseek targeted them and other top. U.S. lapsed the copy their tech. China's embassy fired back hard, calling the charges baseless attacks on their AI growth, while Deepseek rode out a preview of its hot new V4. Model tuned for Huawei chips, showing their push for independence. Some Western and Asian governments have banned Deepseek in official use over privacy worries, but its models still top charts on global open source. Sites.

1:00The cable warns these stolen models cut costs, but ditch safety features and truth checks, setting a more U.S. pressure amid rising tech tensions. Before President Trump's Beijing trip with Xi Jinping.