Michael Kratsios

President Trump signed two executive orders to advance U.S. quantum computing capabilities and accelerate adoption of post-quantum cryptography by 2031. The measures aim to address risks posed by quantum computers to cryptographic systems, including Bitcoin's security, which could face vulnerabilities if private keys are reverse-engineered.

Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer weeks after leaving the Department of Justice in April 2024. She is recovering from treatment and has been appointed by President Donald Trump to an AI policy advisory committee, while Trump praised her work in reducing crime.

President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a panel focused on AI policy. Bondi will coordinate between the government and tech leaders like Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison. She was previously ousted as AG and is recovering from thyroid cancer.

President Trump held a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, presenting a facade of friendship while underlying tensions persist over trade, Iran policy, and intellectual property theft. The summit produced modest trade deliverables including Boeing aircraft purchases and agricultural commitments, but was undermined by simultaneous U.S. sanctions on Chinese entities and intelligence assessments of China's strategic competition with the U.S.

A White House memo from Michael Kratsios alleges that Chinese firms are engaging in wrongful distillation of U.S. AI models, suggesting intellectual property theft.

A White House memo from Michael Kratsios alleges that Chinese firms are wrongfully distilling US AI models, raising concerns about intellectual property theft.

The US accuses China of conducting 'industrial-scale' AI intellectual property theft through distillation attacks, with companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic alleging Chinese firms cloned their models. China has dismissed these claims as 'slander,' while the US government warns such activities threaten American AI leadership.

The White House accused foreign entities, primarily China, of conducting large-scale theft of U.S. artificial intelligence models through proxy accounts. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, revealed that Chinese entities are using thousands of accounts to distill frontier AI models from U.S. companies.

The Trump administration accused China-backed actors of conducting 'industrial-scale' campaigns to steal and replicate U.S. AI models through distillation attacks. The allegations highlight escalating U.S.-China AI rivalry and could impact President Trump's upcoming Beijing visit, with OpenAI and Anthropic citing Chinese firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI as perpetrators.