Author: Sana Malik

Data breaches, ransomware economics, and the murky business of cyber insurance make up Sana's beat. She started out in IT security consulting before realizing she found the stories more interesting than the incident reports. Her sourcing runs deep into both corporate security teams and the researcher community that tracks threats before companies admit to them. She's a competitive puzzle solver outside work, a hobby that maps uncomfortably well onto her day job.

US accuses Chinese AI firms of malicious technology copying as AI tensions rise ahead of Xi visit

Cyber Security

WASHINGTON [Sept. 9]: The United States has accused several Chinese artificial intelligence companies of systematically using technology developed by American AI firms to accelerate their own AI systems, adding a fresh point of tension ahead of a planned meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month. U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials said six Chinese companies, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba, had used a technique known as AI model distillation to develop their products more rapidly and at lower cost. Distillation involves training a smaller AI model using outputs generated by a larger…

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