AIW AI Weekly Issue #504: America blocked its best AI. China just raised $7.4 billion.
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2026 12:00 am
Four days after Washington cut foreign access to Anthropic's top models, the fallout is clear — and it's flowing to everyone but Anthropic. Cohere says it's drowning in government inbounds, DeepSeek just closed a record $7.4B round, and China's labs are slashing token prices up to 99%. The export control meant to protect America's AI lead is fast-tracking the alternatives. Also this week: 144 poisoned npm packages turn the AI supply chain into an open credential heist.
Source: https://aiweekly.co/issues/america-bloc ... 74-billion
Source: https://aiweekly.co/issues/america-bloc ... 74-billion