China steals frontier AI model weights

7.6 significance by AI 2027 Security Q1 2027

Why does it matter?

This would make frontier AI a national-security target, not just a commercial technology.

Direct quote

The changes come too late. CCP leadership recognizes the importance of Agent-2 and tells their spies and cyberforce to steal the weights. Early one morning, an Agent-1 traffic monitoring agent detects an anomalous transfer.

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