OpenAI and Google Gave AI Models to Blacklisted Chinese Giants

OpenAI and Google provided access to their advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent — firms named on the Pentagon's Chinese military companies list — according to a Financial Times report. The disclosure exposes a gap in US AI export controls and points to a hole in Washington's effort to slow Beijing's AI development. According to reporting, the transactions are considered legal under current US rules.