OpenAI said some of the activity involved websites belonging to US government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Census Bureau.
Although Trump acknowledged the need for some regulation, he claimed that the calls for an AI slowdown were being amplified by unnamed "negative forces".
Days after Anthropic published a threat intelligence report highlighting alarming misuse of AI, its CEO published an essay proposing an AI slowdown, however, concerns have been raised that this proposal is not just about safety but also about bolstering duopoly of OpenAI and Anthropic.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, along with other key authorities have accused Chinese AI companies of conducting industrial-scale distillation of AI models of OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and others to extract proprietary capabilities, thus reducing development timelines and costs for their own AI models.
ISRO has dismissed the claims that it is undergoing privatisation, stating that India's space ambitions cannot be solely achieved by ISRO manpower and government resources.