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⛔ OpenAI urges US to ban DeepSeek
✊ Google demands weaker copyright laws
Martin Crowley, Liam Lawson & Amanda Greenwood
March 14, 2025
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⛔ OpenAI urges US to ban DeepSeek
🚨 Our Report — As part of its submission for the Trump administration’s “AI Plan” initiative, OpenAI has described its rival, Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek, as “state-sponsored” and “state-controlled” and has urged the government to ban its models—including the viral reasoning model, R1—and all other models produced by companies that are backed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
🔓 Key Points:
OpenAI believes that DeepSeek and other PRC models pose a US security risk because the Chinese government can demand companies share user data upon request and use it to cause harm.
It wants PRC-produced AI models to be banned in all countries classified as “Tier 1” under the Biden administration's export rules (18 of the US' most trusted allies) to protect privacy, prevent security risks, and stop IP theft.
But DeepSeek’s open models—used by Microsoft, Perplexity, and Amazon—don’t allow the Chinese government to siphon users' data, leaving many questioning the practicality of the potential ban.
🔐 Relevance — There is also no clear link between the Chinese government and DeepSeek (although DeepSeek’s founder, Liang Wenfeng, did recently meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, raising speculations about the company’s political ties), leaving many believing that this is just a tactic from OpenAI to limit DeepSeek’s influence.
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✊ Google demands weaker copyright laws
🚨 Our Report — Alongside OpenAI, Google has also submitted a proposal in response to Trump's request for a national “AI Plan,” with the central, core message being that the US needs to aggressively prioritize AI innovation over regulation, because it believes that “for too long, AI policymaking has paid disproportionate attention to the risks, often ignoring the costs that misguided regulation can have on innovation, national competitiveness, and scientific leadership.”
🔓 Key Points:
Two of the biggest areas of change that Google is advocating for are weaker copyright restrictions and balanced export controls that don’t stifle international business and the export of US AI technologies.
Google wants “fair use” and “text-and-data mining exceptions” to be applied to all AI training data and the right to train AI models on publicly available data, including copyrighted material, with minimal restrictions.
It also thinks that AI chip export restrictions under Biden imposed “disproportionate burdens” and, while limiting the availability of AI chips in disfavored countries, wants exemptions for trusted businesses.
🔐 Relevance — Google is clearly favoring innovation over risk—arguing that previous AI polices have been “overly focused” on risks—and believes the “current administration is starting to correct this imbalance,” but one can’t help but think that these proposals come as it faces several lawsuits accusing it of training its AI models on copyrighted data without permission or awarding any compensation, so if these rules are passed, does that mean Google escapes without any consequences? If so, is that right or wrong?
If weaker copyright rules are passed and Google escapes its copyright lawsuits, is that right or wrong? |
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🥷 Bail granted to NVIDIA chip smugglers
Earlier this month, two Singaporean men and one Chinese man were arrested by Singaporean authorities for smuggling $390M worth of NVIDIA Blackwell chips out of the US despite US export restrictions.
The Singapore courts have now granted the three men bail (for between S$600K to S$1M) with the next court hearing scheduled for May 2nd, after prosecutors asked for 8 weeks to complete their investigation.
The Chinese man must wear an electronic tagging device, and all three have been banned from airports and border checkpoints and prohibited from discussing the case if they are released on bail.
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