Treasury Secretary: the US Could Sanction Chinese AI Companies

US Treasury Secretary signals the Trump administration may sanction Chinese AI companies for allegedly stealing intellectual property through model distillation, naming watermarks of US large language models found in Chinese models. The announcement targets companies like Moonshot AI (maker of Kimi K3) and comes amid an intense debate over open-source AI competition and potential government intervention.

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