China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic's Claude
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The 2026 China Internet Conference will be held, focusing on core topics such as the industrialization of AI, the interconnection and interoperability of computing power, and the marketization of data elements.
Mars Finance reports that the 25th China Internet Conference will be held from July 8th to 10th. This year's conference will likely focus on core topics such as the industrialization of AI, computing power interconnection, and the marketization of data elements. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology previously released the "Computing Power Interconnection Action Plan," aiming to establish a computing power interconnection standard system by 2026, with the "Millisecond-Level Computing" special action in urban areas being promoted simultaneously. (Cailian Press)
"White-haired stock market guru" Serenity: Leaked documents show Anthropic may be planning to acquire 1.4GW of data center capacity in Australia.
According to Odaily Odaily, Serenity, the "white-haired stock market guru," posted on the X platform that, based on leaked internal Anthropic documents, the company plans to acquire approximately 1.4 GW of data center power capacity from Australia, corresponding to an investment of about US$21.6 billion. Meanwhile, Neocloud companies such as IREN and SHAZ have been continuously building sovereign data centers in Australia, indicating that investment in AI infrastructure is still accelerating.
Anthropic plans to acquire Australian data center computing resources.
According to Mars Finance, Australian sources indicate that artificial intelligence company Anthropic plans to secure at least 1.4 million kilowatts of data center computing power in Australia, with a total investment potentially reaching $15 billion. Australian media, citing a confidential tender document, reports that Anthropic plans to activate at least 1 million kilowatts of computing power by the end of next year at the latest. The report states that the AI company's baseline plan is to find long-term partners to jointly build a data center campus with a total capacity of 1.4 million kilowatts. Anthropic is about six weeks away from making a final investment decision, and this large deal may be broken down into four to five smaller cooperation agreements. (Cailian Press)
Revolut attackers threaten daily customer data leaks
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Some large-scale AI models in China are 90% cheaper than those in the US; Chinese AI's high cost-effectiveness is capturing the US market.
According to a report by CNBC on July 7th, influenced by the continued price increases of models from leading US AI vendors, Chinese AI large-scale models are rapidly expanding their application scale in US enterprises due to their cost-effectiveness advantage. Industry insiders point out that the performance of some leading open-source and open weighted models in China is currently about 6 to 9 months behind the technology of top-tier US models such as OpenAI and Anthropic, while the price is 60% to 90% lower, and they can cover the vast majority of routine AI tasks, thus gaining popularity among US enterprises. According to statistics from the AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter, since February 8th of this year, the proportion of Chinese AI models used by US enterprises has exceeded 30% weekly, reaching a peak of 46%; while the average proportion in the previous 12 months was 11%. Another industry statistic shows that in the first week of the launch of Zhipu's latest large-scale model GLM 5.2, the daily average number of word calls increased by 27 times and the number of customers increased by 80 times, making it the fastest-deployed model on the platform in 2026; US AI startup Lindy has significantly reduced costs after switching all its AI business to DeepSeek models, and expects to save millions of dollars within a few months. (CCTV Finance)