ClawSecure ran tests on 14 models from five labs and found none resisted indirect prompt injection. Separately, US agencies named six China-based firms they say have been running industrial-scale campaigns to extract knowledge from American frontier models.
The Nvidia-backed New York startup unveiled Beam on 5 October, claiming it matches Chinese model GLM-5.2 on reasoning benchmarks. It plans to release the model's weights later this month, targeting enterprises and sovereign nations wanting to run AI on their own data.
The group, known as TA419, used the identity of Lynne Edwards Parker to approach fewer than 10 specialists at think tanks, universities and law firms in the US and Japan. Proofpoint, which identified the campaign, said the narrow targeting suggested an interest in US policymaking rather than technology theft.
US firms still hold the frontier in advanced AI models, but China has narrowed the lead to under 3%, according to Stanford researchers. It now accounts for more than nine-tenths of global humanoid robot shipments and has over two million robots working in its factories.
Sam Altman plans to attend Wednesday's session, called by France during the UN General Assembly. DeepSeek's founder will not appear, and the format — public or closed-door — has not yet been confirmed.
The tool, powered by Alibaba's Qwen model, helped users browse proposed federal rules before being pulled the same day. It appeared a week after the FBI accused Alibaba of copying models from US firm Anthropic — an allegation Alibaba denies.
The president dismissed expert warnings about unchecked AI growth as Democratic hoaxes. The new force has no announced structure, budget or timetable.
The two countries are planning talks on frontier AI risks in mid-September, with the issue possibly raised at a Trump-Xi summit on September 24. But Beijing sees any proposed safety arrangements as a cover for technological containment, making binding cooperation unlikely.
The Nvidia chief, whose chips are central to AI development, will join President Trump when he hosts the Chinese leader in Washington on 24 September. Artificial intelligence is expected to be a central topic at the meeting.
Dario Amodei's essay urging slower AI development and tighter US chip controls on China drew accusations from Beijing of fearmongering and an attempt to monopolise the industry. Trump and Xi are expected to discuss AI governance on September 24.
The president described opposition to AI development as a plot that only benefits China. Both Washington and Beijing have now pushed back against tech leaders' calls to slow the pace of frontier AI ahead of a planned Trump-Xi meeting on September 24.
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