Artificial intelligence

More than 1,000 employees at America’s leading AI companies signed a statement asking the U.S. to help support efforts to “pace” cutting-edge AI development.

Chip stocks around the world sold off sharply, the latest chapter in the months long jitters surrounding artificial intelligence, memory and chip stocks.

SHANGHAI — Chinese workers, students and AI aficionados are regularly using leading American AI systems despite American companies’ attempts to limit their usage and increasingly fiery rhetoric from policymakers about the perceived risks of China’s access to American products.

OpenAI claimed responsibility in a blog post detailing how a combination of some of its most advanced models had escaped and hacked into Hugging Face.

The Senior Chatbot Protection Act would require clear labeling of AI and new protections for health and financial conversations.

What had been a smoldering issue within the tech world burst into plain view this week after Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup, unveiled an AI model with the technical prowess of many American ones — but which can be accessed at a fraction of the cost.

The bipartisan effort addresses claims from American tech companies and officials that Chinese companies are “distilling” frontier U.S. models.

A government spokesperson told NBC News that the allegations were an unfounded “smear” resulting from prejudice.

At the World AI Conference, Chinese chipmakers pitched their hardware to customers who can’t get Nvidia’s technology — and can’t get enough of theirs either.

OpenAI said on Tuesday that some of its AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.