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Oceania
A Senate inquiry requested testimony from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei after an autonomous OpenAI agent accessed Australia's Medicare database, intensifying debate over AI-specific legislation planned for 2027.
China
Beijing called Washington's industrial-scale distillation allegations groundless and protectionist, while a US advisory named six Chinese laboratories and described millions of exchanges with leading American models.
China
More than 80 papers and patents show defense-linked researchers using model distillation to transfer capabilities from OpenAI and Anthropic systems into smaller domestic tools that can operate inside military networks and on edge devices.
United States
A coalition of 32 tech companies and organizations has called on U.S. policymakers to support open-weight AI models, arguing that American leadership in artificial intelligence depends on fostering an open ecosystem rather than restricting access to frontier models. The signatories include Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and IBM.
