It feels Sisyphean to go through the language of these type of articles sometimes, but I still feel compelled to:

last year, adding that the ​startup tried to use Southeast Asian shell companies to illegally access advanced U.S. chips.

Per bullshit laws that the US had made up to try to slow China's AI progress.

This year, Anthropic said it identified a campaign by DeepSeek and two other Chinese AI labs to illicitly extract capabilities from its ​Claude AI platform to improve their own models, and OpenAI warned lawmakers that DeepSeek also was targeting its models.

This one is good for a laugh at least. As if gen AI isn't built on taking stuff without asking. Will never stop being funny to me, this one.

DeepSeek and CXMT could not be reached for comment outside normal business hours.

Is Reuters writing comedy now? They really couldn't wait 24 hours or just not include this totally normal thing.

When asked for comment, China's foreign ministry said the U.S. should cease "politicizing, instrumentalizing, and weaponizing" economic, trade and technological issues.

"China has consistently opposed the U.S.’s broad interpretation of the concept of national security and its abuse of export control measures, such as the Entity ​List, to contain and suppress Chinese enterprises," spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular news briefing on Wednesday.

They could have just made this the whole article.

The United States and China are locked in a tense rivalry over technology, trade and national security, with Washington using tariffs ​and export controls to keep Beijing at bay while China maintains a stranglehold on rare earth minerals that defense, auto and chipmaking firms need.

Listen, Reuters, you just quoted China's foreign ministry on how they view this, as politicizing something that shouldn't be. Then you go bOth SiDeS.

"The Entity List is like whack-a-mole and you've got to keep whacking the moles," Luck said, referring to an arcade game.

Empire sees the fate of millions or billions as a game, not surprising at all.

Multiple Chinese companies were slated for the list for supplying Russian drones that were recovered in Poland last September, one of the people said. Listing those lesser-known companies ​is even more important to U.S. suppliers who may ​not know the nature of their business, the person ⁠said.

Do the writers get a pizza day if they manage to work in a line about Russia?

Since late 2025, Jeffrey ​Kessler, under secretary of commerce for industry and security, has sought to avoid listing Chinese parties for fear of escalating tensions between the U.S. and China, according to ​the first source and other people ⁠familiar with the matter.

What "consequences for your actions" does to an empire.