News Summary

• The White House is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies’ exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models.
• In a memo, the president’s chief science and technology adviser accused foreign entities “principally based in China” of engaging in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to “distill,” or extract capabilities from, leading AI systems.
• The administration, Kratsios wrote, will work with American AI companies to identify such activities, build defenses and find ways to punish offenders.