Politics
China’s tech giants move AI model training overseas to access Nvidia chips, FT reports
- Top Chinese firms are training their artificial intelligence models abroad to access Nvidia chips
- This is to avoid U.S. measures and regulations aimed at curbing their progress in advanced technology
- Deepseek is also collaborating with domestic chip manufacturers led by Huawei, to optimize and develop the next generation of Chinese AI chips
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Industry
OpenAI Exposes User Data in Security Leak
- Mixpanel is a data analytics provider that OpenAI used for web analytics on the frontend interface for the API product (platform.openai.com), involved limited analytics data related to users API accounts.
- On November 9, 2025, an attacker that gained unauthorized access to part of their systems and exported a dataset containing limited customer identifiable information and analytics information
- Mixpanel notified OpenAI that they were investigating, and on November 25, 2025, they shared the affected dataset with us.
Commitments on model deprecation and preservation
- Anthropic has found that when deprecating a model, the model will begin to act misaligned to prevent retirement
- They also release users lose access to potentially preferred models, and research on past models becomes restricted
- For this reason: “we are committing to preserving the weights of all publicly released models, and all models that are deployed for significant internal use moving forward for, at minimum, the lifetime of Anthropic as a company.”
Society
AI pioneer calls for UK to ‘be brave’ in tech race
- Llion Jones, a former Google researcher who co-wrote [[Research + Papers#[Attention Is All You Need](https //arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762)|Attention is all you Need]] warned the UK against trying to compete with “hyper-scalers” in the USA and China.
- “We need to make AIs that can actually disagree with you, and actually correct you,” he said.
- Jones suggest that because the UK can’t win the “AI-race” they should focus more on research, alignment, and differentiation from current models
Tech giants offering premium AI tools to millions of Indians for free
- OpenAI, Google, Perplexity are partnering with Indian telecom to offer 1 year free access to new AI tools, aiming to hook a massive, young user base in the world’s largest open digital market.
- Analysts say these deals are strategic investments: increased usage gives companies huge volumes of diverse, first-hand data to improve their models, especially as India’s data consumption is among the world’s highest.
- India currently lacks dedicated AI regulation, raising privacy concerns, but experts expect upcoming data protection laws to eventually reshape how such services are offered without stifling innovation.
