Why does it matter?
This would make frontier AI a national-security target, not just a commercial technology.
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In retaliation for the theft, the President authorizes cyberattacks to sabotage DeepCent. But by now China has 40% of its AI-relevant compute in the CDZ, where they have aggressively hardened security by airgapping and siloing internally. The operations fail to do serious, immediate damage.
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