A New Chinese AI Resets the Global Tech Race

一项新的中国人工智能技术重置了全球科技竞赛格局。

WSJ What’s News

2026-06-29

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A.M. Edition for June 29. Researchers find a new Chinese AI model is able to match the performance of Anthropic’s Mythos, a development WSJ tech reporter Sam Schechner says is likely to pressure the White House in its overhaul of U.S. AI policy. Plus, we’ll look at how your unsecured home devices like computers and digital photo frames are linked to major cyberattacks. And Venezuela desperately searches for some 50,000 people still believed missing after last week’s earthquakes. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • A big leap for Chinese AI, as researchers find that a new model goes toe-to-toe with Anthropic in cybersecurity.

  • Plus, we'll look at how your unsecured smart devices could be playing a role in massive cyber attacks.

  • What we're seeing is through these res proxy networks,

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  • Laptops, streaming devices, picture frames, smart refrigerators, all hitting the same site at the same time.

  • Very few sites in the world are resilient to that level of inbound traffic.

  • And a staggering death toll starts coming into focus after last week's Venezuela earthquakes.

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  • China has caught up with Anthropic in cybersecurity, potentially resetting the global AI race.

  • Security researchers say that a new model released by China's Z.AI lags behind products

  • from Anthropic and OpenAI in some tasks, but can match them in finding security bugs.

  • The release of the model comes as U.S.

  • Lawmakers have tried restricting access to the most potentially disruptive AI models, like Anthropic's Mythos.

  • However, as journal tech reporter Sam Schechner explained, Z.ai's model being open weight,

  • meaning it can be downloaded, used and modified without supervision, makes that impossible.