Evening Edition: China Is Ripping Off U.S. AI Companies And It’s A National Security Threat

Companies like ‘Anthropic’ and ‘OpenAI’ are warning Congress that China is stealing their cutting-edge AI to produce cheaper, open-source chatbots. The U.S. firm alleges ‘DeepSeek’, ‘Moonshot AI’ and ‘MiniMax’ are using ‘distillation’ attacks to generate more than 16 million exchanges with ‘Anthropic’s Claude’ chatbot in a coordinated campaign designed to extract high-value model outputs which is cutting into the U.S.’s thin lead in AI development. Meanwhile, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has put a one year moratorium on building ‘hyperscale’ data centers in her state.

FOX’s Gurnal Scott speaks with Kyler Schmitz, Vice President of ‘Patmos Hosting’, an AI infrastructure company, who says coordination from both the private sector and the Federal Government is needed to secure AI innovations , as does the building and powering of data centers.