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Posted on 06/28/2026 3:22:13 AM PDT by dennisw
China is closing in on the US in the AI race after the superpower developed its cybersecurity capabilities to match those of its American rivals.
Beijing-based tech firms 360 Security Technology and Z.ai, also known as Zhipu AI, have narrowed the gap with American competitors when it comes to finding bugs.
360 Security Chief Executive Zhou Hongyi told a cybersecurity conference in the Chinese capital that the company's bug-finding tool, called Tulongfeng, is now comparable to Anthropic's Mythos, which serves the same function.
'This kind of powerful weapon that can alter the landscape of cyberwarfare can't remain solely in American hands,' Zhou said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Identifying bugs in software using AI systems allows hackers to quickly exploit them before they can be fixed - which may lead to a nightmare worldwide 'bugmageddon' scenario where cybercriminals can launch widespread and devastating attacks.
Though Chinese tech is advancing in this field, it still lags behind on other fronts, including OpenAI products like ChatGPT.
While Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have maintained what the US President terms a 'good relationship,' the rivalry between the two superpowers remains tense.
Amid increased security concerns, the Trump administration has been imposing limits on public access to new Anthropic systems - something which critics have said is actually helping Beijing by stunting the growth of US models.
The decision to allow AI chips to be exported to China while Anthropic's Fable 5 model is taken offline has also been criticized, with think tank fellow Saif Khan calling it a 'gift' to Xi.
Niels Provos, a researcher who led security teams at Google and Stripe, said: 'It is incentivizing companies across the globe to use cheaper but very capable Chinese open-weight models, while at the same time undermining the US AI industry.
'I don't understand it.'
Lior Div, chief executive of cybersecurity company 7AI, said China was 'making sure that the gap becomes smaller and smaller over time.'
Microsoft and other American companies are reportedly mulling over how they can offer Chinese AI models on their platforms.
'Our administration is very much focused on Chinese open-source models,' Jacob Helberg, who is undersecretary of state for economic affairs and a former tech adviser and investor, told the WSJ. 'It's something that we're tracking very closely.'
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World leader in AI = World leader in innovative weaponry.
China is the Rival and why we are at war with Iran+China in the Middle East. Iran+China aspire to control all as in all Gulf oil flows. China will build military bases in Iran. They have already helped with oil exploration and oil infrastructure.
Shiite Twelvers, apocalyptic doomsdayers ALLIED with godless heathens Chinese.
Wonderful.
Stuxnet Type gift?
They still don’t have processors to match the western standard. The reason is that they imitate (or outright steal) but rarely innovate. The intellectual system is so punitive and intolerant of failure that what they get is a lot of fearful people. Fearful people only rarely come up with intuitive leaps that drive technologies forward.
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Dont worry Z... as history proves, a group of our government will find a way to just give you the technology.
“They still don’t have processors to match the western standard.”
Their work around is innovative AI models. Deep Seek in available on line. One comment from a programmer. She now uses Deep Seek at a fraction of what she was paying USA AI (Claude?).... $2000 per month. She said deep seek is 80% as good
Right, and yet they have missiles filled with water instead of rocket fuel, there top of the line defense weaponry was proven less then useless, there Aircraft carriers are used jump deck styles, the one that actually has electronic rails only have half of the rails are usable, and there stealth technology is a joke.
Everyone’s military is stronger than the USA’s but somehow when the fight starts we always seem to magically mop the floor with them.
Does Wal Mart Mislead On What It Imports From China?
Post 2, "And the reason that I should lay awake nights worrying about what Wal-Mart imports is???"
Post 5, "Maybe. Why do I care? Is it illegal? Immoral? Unconstitutional? Would I get a better deal otherwise?"
Post 9, "yeah whatever....just go ahead and bash WalMart. This is how the world works and I kind of like the low prices myself...."
Post 30, "but the pseudo communists always come out of the woodwork in a WalMart thread...." (you have to follow the thread to get this one).
Post 33, this person turned out to be a prophet, "It is gonna be interesting when we need to make tanks to fight the Chinese? We have exported our manufacturing base."
Post 56, "Why is this even important? Why should we care what % of their inventory they import whether it be from China or any other country?"
Post 79, "Translation: I won't answer this because my answer would call for protectionism and this would lead to another debacle along the lines of that which occurred when Smoot-Hawley was enacted to "fix" the economy in the 1930's."
Post 94, in reply to post 79 above, "That sums up the mindset of the Wal-Mart bashing brigade here."
China June trade surplus swells five-fold
Post 255, "Why should I pay higher prices for any item, just to satisfy someone else's concept of fair trade."
Post 287, "This applies to the anti-free traders also. USA - we've got ours, screw you. No you can't have access to our markets, we want to keep you poor."
Post 301, "So far I have been accused of being a communist chinese plant to influence Free Republic for taking the free trade position. (So far) Now Free Trade advocates are being lumped with the Islamofacists? I'm building quite the resume!"
Considering the Chinese penchant for stealing any intellectual property that’s not nailed down is that really a good idea?
China does nothing out of a sense of altruism. If they’re giving you something for much less than the going price for a similar service they’re expecting to see some gain elsewhere. I wouldn’t trust it. Remember when they wanted to dump Huawei phones on the US market? Well they weren’t allowed to and it’s really a good thing because they were loaded with spyware. The Chinese are communists first and foremost. So don’t trust them.
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Of course Deep Sink is stealing her programming. Filing it away for whatever! Though if she does the last 20% of her project with US AI... Deep Sink will be aced out.
Why the heck do we have hundreds of thousands of Chinese studying at our universities? We are so effing stupid.
The U.S. is contributing to China’s rise and becoming the leading superpower.
Overlooked is the corrupted US Comex which sets world prices for commodities and metals. Silver and Gold are prime examples. Without copper and silver AI data centers can’t be built.
Our Comex has been shorting and controlling the PM market for years, everytime the price is manipulated down, China buys tons and takes physical deliver from the Comex, depleting western stocks. Comex and CME published figures prove this has been happening for decades, and now getting critical.
This last recent smash down in silver and gold prices reveals China swooped in and took delivery of tons of PM’s at rock bottom prices. They have outsmarted us once again.
“China’s silver imports hit an eight-year high in the first two months of 2026 as burgeoning demand from the industrial and investment sectors boosted local price premiums, drained domestic silver stockpiles, and drove unprecedented foreign purchases, according to the latest customs data released Friday.
In January and February, China imported over 790 tonnes of silver, the data showed, with February alone accounting for a year-over-year record of 470 tonnes in imports....”
The U.S. banks manipulation is playing into China’s hands, Fools.
So, should I have concerns about my local Data Center?
How might the Chinese hack, infiltrate, co-opt, etc. the thing? Any Chinese or foreign parts in there? Can they infect using the power input lines?
And when it was being constructed, were all the workers vetted? Are any managers being bribed or blackmailed?
And maybe they just want me to suck my water table dry.
Maybe the Chinese like our data centers. We have collected all the stuff for them in one place.
China is so fake
Don’t the chinese also have a lot of nepotism, which leads to Incompetent people being in positions of power?
My friend crashed his motorcycle a few months ago and he had to replace the foot pegs on one side of the bike. The set was $500 here in America. He had a trip planned to Hong Kong and when he was there he went to the mainland of China and bought the exact pegs....for ELEVEN dollars! People are making bank on Americans and it isn’t just the CCP. Lots of middle men.
It’s because we don’t have the factories to make them here in the USA and our money is devalued. So we get soaked for everything. Cars that are 30 to 50 grand in our nation can be found vastly cheaper in other lands.
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