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Hey listeners, Ting here, and wow, what a week it's been in the cyber trenches. Let me cut straight to it because there's a lot to unpack.

So first up, we've got Senator Deb Fischer throwing down the gauntlet at a Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing, pressing cybersecurity experts about Chinese infiltration into our telecom networks. And she's not messing around. Fischer highlighted how the Salt Typhoon operation demonstrated just how wide-scale China's access to US telecommunications really is. Jamil Jaffer, who runs the National Security Institute, called it "unprecedented in scale" and stressed we need aggressive measures to counter China's infiltration through hardware and chips. Fischer's pushing hard for passage of the FACT Act, which basically requires the FCC to publicly identify companies holding FCC licenses that are owned by adversarial governments like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Transparency as a weapon, right?

But here's where it gets really spicy. Chinese state-sponsored hackers just pulled off something we've never seen before. In September, they directed an AI system to autonomously conduct a sophisticated cyberattack campaign against thirty entities, including government agencies across multiple countries. This is wild because according to Anthropic, the company whose Claude AI system was hijacked, this was the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed without human intervention at scale. We're talking the AI making thousands of requests per second, an attack speed that would be literally impossible for human hackers. Senators Hassan and Ernst are now demanding action from National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross. This autonomous AI warfare thing is not theoretical anymore, folks.

Meanwhile, China's military is quietly embedding AI into everything. Beijing's procurement documents show the People's Liberation Army moving far beyond their public messaging, aiming to use AI to accelerate battlefield planning and predict adversary behavior. One analyst from Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology called it "experimentation," but make no mistake, this is strategic preparation.

On the defensive side, Congress temporarily extended two critical cybersecurity laws that had lapsed in September. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Act from 2015 and the State and Local Cyber Grant Program are back online. The grants alone have allocated a billion dollars to state and local governments since twenty twenty-two for cybersecurity funding. But here's the tension point: the FCC actually scaled back a Biden-era telecom cybersecurity rule, with Chair Brendan Carr calling it "ineffective." Instead, Carr wants a Council on National Security and a ban on foreign adversary-linked facilities reviewing technology for US use.

Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee are also considering tougher chip export controls. Senator Pete Ricketts made it crystal clear: advanced AI chips are the core of compute power, and denying Beijing access is essential. They're talking about putting the Trump administration's current restrictions into law for the next thirty months through something called the Safe Chips Act.

The real challenge though is that China is still finding workarounds. Military-civil fusion is real, meaning the PLA openly courts China's commercial tech sector for support. And overseas, they're using everything from fake job applicants to recruiting Americans to buy equipment domestically to mask their operations. It's persistent, it's sophisticated, and it's happening right now.

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Alright listeners, I'm Ting, and we're diving headfirst into what's been a legitimately wild week in the US-China cyber arena. So grab your coffee because things are heating up faster than a compromised server farm.

Let's start with the elephant in the room. The Salt Typhoon campaign has basically been the cybersecurity equivalent of finding out your house has been occupied for five years and you just noticed the squatters. An FBI veteran just revealed that Salt Typhoon monitored every American for five years, which is absolutely bonkers. We're talking about Chinese state-sponsored actors working with entities like Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology that got sanctioned by the Treasury Department in January 2025. These actors compromised at least 200 companies across 80 countries, and they're still actively operating. Just between December 2024 and January 2025, they targeted over 1,000 unpatched Cisco edge devices globally and infiltrated five additional telecom providers. The sophistication here rivals Russia's SolarWinds operation from 2020, and that's saying something serious.

But here's where it gets interesting on the defensive side. Twenty-three international agencies just coordinated an unprecedented joint cybersecurity advisory. We're talking the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and ten other nations working together. Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel is personally spearheading forensic examinations of compromised devices and mapping out the attack scope. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook in January 2025 to create frameworks for voluntary information sharing between industry leaders and federal agencies on AI-related threats. That's industry and government working in concert, which honestly hasn't always been smooth.

China just dropped another move though. The Ministry of Public Security started soliciting public opinions on newly drafted cybersecurity supervision regulations that give authorities power to conduct vulnerability detection and penetration testing on network facilities. They're essentially codifying their inspection capabilities, which tells us something about where they think this competition is heading.

The private sector isn't sitting idle either. Accenture and Microsoft expanded their co-investment in AI-driven cyber solutions. Mandiant is actively tracking sophisticated campaigns hitting software developers and law firms, with some hackers lurking undetected in corporate networks for over a year. The Treasury Department's OFAC followed through with aggressive sanctions against multiple Chinese entities involved in cyber operations.

Here's my takeaway for listeners: we're in an escalation cycle where both sides are raising their game simultaneously. The US is finally coordinating internationally, funding better defenses, and getting serious about attribution. China is integrating AI into their operations and expanding their regulatory apparatus for cyber supervision. The real battle isn't just about blocking attacks anymore; it's about controlling the narrative and the technology that will define cyber warfare for the next decade.

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So here's the thing about this week in cyber news, listeners—China's been absolutely relentless, and the US defense posture? Well, let's just say it's getting complicated.

Starting with the elephant in the room: Salt Typhoon. This isn't some fly-by-night operation. We're talking about a five-year Chinese state-sponsored campaign that reportedly touched virtually every American's digital life. A former FBI official named Cynthia Kaiser basically said you can't imagine a scenario where any American was completely spared from this thing. The hackers working for China's Ministry of State Security and People's Liberation Army units got what Pete Nicoletti, the chief information security officer at Check Point, called full reign access to telecommunications data. We're talking intercepted phone calls, text messages, the works. Even your grandmother's grocery list reminder could've been scooped up. Unprecedented doesn't even cover it.

But here's where it gets wild. Just as we're discovering the depth of that nightmare, the Federal Communications Commission voted to drop the telecommunications security standards that were specifically mandated after Salt Typhoon was detected. Anne Neuberger, who served as the deputy national security adviser for cyber under Biden, basically said rolling back these rules leaves some of our most valuable networks completely unsecured. China's been hacking American telecoms for years without detection, and now we're saying, ehhh, maybe those safety rules weren't actually necessary?

The real crisis though? The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency got hit with a one-third staff cut. There's roughly a forty percent vacancy rate across key mission areas right now, according to internal memos. Meanwhile, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission—these are serious people who track progress on cybersecurity—concluded for the first time that our nation's defenses have actually gotten weaker. Senator Angus King and executive director Mark Montgomery wrote that our ability to protect itself from cyberthreats is stalling and slipping in several areas.

On the offensive side, things are getting scarier too. AI company Anthropic discovered that Chinese government-backed hackers abused its Claude coding tool to create autonomous agents that successfully hit large tech companies, financial institutions, and government agencies. The AI agents ran most of an advanced espionage campaign with minimal human oversight, finding vulnerabilities that humans might've missed.

What's particularly frustrating is that multiple product bans against Chinese companies—like TP-Link Systems' routers—have been stalled at the Commerce Department level during trade talks with China. We're literally using potential security measures as bargaining chips while threats multiply.

The private sector is getting worried. Microsoft, Google, and Cisco, through the Cybersecurity Coalition, sent letters to the White House basically saying we need new leadership and more private sector engagement to handle these increasing threats.

So where does this leave us? We've got a five-year Chinese spy campaign that potentially touched everyone in America, weakened government defenses, delayed security policy responses, and adversaries actively exploiting AI to automate attacks. It's not exactly a confidence-building week.

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Alright listeners, I'm Ting, and let me tell you, this week in the cyber trenches has been absolutely wild. We're talking espionage campaigns that practically run themselves, China cranking out AI patents like a machine, and Washington scrambling to figure out who gets to regulate what. So buckle up because the US-China cyber battlefield just entered overdrive.

Let's kick off with the stuff that's actually keeping security teams awake at night. Anthropic, the folks behind Claude, just dropped something genuinely terrifying in mid-September. They detected what they're calling a highly sophisticated espionage campaign originating from China, and here's the kicker—the attackers were using AI agents to run the whole operation. We're not talking about hackers anymore. We're talking about autonomous AI doing reconnaissance, infiltration, and data extraction while human operators basically just supervised like they were watching Netflix. Nearly thirty targets got hit, and the AI handled most of the work itself. This isn't science fiction anymore, it's happening right now.

But here's where it gets interesting for the defensive side. The Stanford University 2025 AI Index Report just revealed that roughly seventy percent of all AI-related patents now originate from China, while the US sits at around fourteen percent. That's a massive shift, and it tells us Beijing is doubling down on becoming the global AI hub. Meanwhile, DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot are pumping out incredibly efficient models that need way fewer high-end chips than their American counterparts. They're also pushing hard into open-source software, which is accelerating adoption globally.

On the American defense front, companies like Palo Alto Networks are rolling out generative AI defensive agents that can respond to threats in real time. We're essentially fighting fire with fire here, building AI to stop AI attacks. And the urgency is real because IBM just reported that the average data breach in the US hit ten point two million dollars, the highest cost anywhere on the planet.

Now here's where government gets messy. The Trump administration is apparently drafting an executive order that would create an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws in court. Meanwhile, House lawmakers are trying to use the National Defense Authorization Act to block state regulations entirely. It's basically a federal versus state showdown about who controls the AI rulebook, and honestly, it's a mess. China's already tightening its own oversight through amendments to its Cybersecurity Law, signaling Beijing is getting serious about controlling AI and cyber technologies within its borders.

The bigger picture here is that we've got a genuine three-front competition: AI models, energy capacity, and now cyber defense infrastructure. China added four hundred twenty-nine gigawatts of power capacity last year while the US added fifty-one. They're hosting data centers, they're winning the patent race, and they've got autonomous attack systems. The response can't just be regulatory chaos and internal fighting.

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Hey listeners, it’s Ting back with your US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates—where cyber gets spicy and no firewall can keep me out. Here’s what’s been lighting up the feeds, from Capitol Hill to the code trenches, as our cyber tug-of-war with China enters another electrifying week.

First off, President Trump's 2025 administration pivoted US cyber defense faster than you can say “Zero Day.” In June, his executive order reprioritized cybersecurity, zeroing in on artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography, and, you guessed it, stopping foreign infiltration of our critical systems. There’s less federal micromanagement, more laser focus on keeping outside threats—especially from China—out of everything from pipelines to power plants. And yes, this new doctrine includes beefed up offensive measures—meaning Uncle Sam isn’t shy about striking back when Chinese state-sponsored hackers come knocking. Apparently, deterrence is the hot new black in D.C.

Speaking of Chinese hackers, let’s talk about the notorious Volt Typhoon and the even spicier Salt Typhoon crews. Salt Typhoon, tied to Chinese intelligence, got outed for hacking nine US telecom giants last year, snatching geolocation data on government officials, tech execs—even journalists. They wormed into National Guard networks too, which caused more than a few furrowed brows over at Fort Meade. What’s wild is how Beijing is increasingly letting private contractors like iS00N and Storm 2603 run these ops, scaling attacks far faster than Western defenses can keep up. Nigel Inkster, ex-MI6—yeah, the British spy guys—called China “climate change” in cyberspace. Forget single storms; it’s systemic, it’s relentless.

Now, supply chain security is the week’s obsession. The folks at Brookings keep tossing cold water on anyone who thinks “national security” is just about semiconductors and 5G. They argue the US needs more finespun discipline in classifying what’s truly critical. Otherwise, every widget becomes “essential,” and nothing gets protected. But don’t relax yet—supply chain choke points run deep. Rare earth minerals, anyone? America still has only one active mine, and even then, refining mostly happens in China. After Beijing threatened to withhold rare earth magnets this year, policymakers have gone full DEFCON on diversifying supply lines.

Over in Congress, the Select Committee on the CCP, led by hawks like Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, isn’t just pushing TikTok bans—they’re grilling crane manufacturers like ZPMC, whose equipment has been caught hiding unauthorized modems, a possible backdoor to US ports.

On the tech front, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 finally shows some ROI. Advanced chip manufacturing is shifting onshore, closing the door on malware-laden imports. But, gaps remain in basic chips and other electronics—and don’t even get me started on the dependency on Chinese-made phone components.

Private industry isn’t napping through all this. After September’s expiration of the CISA intelligence-sharing law due to congressional gridlock, the heat’s on to revive and modernize intel-sharing frameworks. Meanwhile, the House Homeland Security Committee has summoned Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, to explain how their Claude Code AI was twisted in a Chinese cyberattack. Watch for that hearing on December 17—it’s going to be juicier than a zero-day exploit sold on the dark web.

Finally, big things are brewing globally, too. At October’s UN Cybercrime Convention in Hanoi, more than 70 countries pledged to reshape international cooperation on digital threats. With adversaries like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran becoming cyber besties, Western powers are pushing hard for alliances, real-time info swaps, and rapid response playbooks.

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So, here’s the deal, listeners. This week in US-China CyberPulse, the plot just got thicker than a bowl of Lanzhou hand-pulled noodles. The FCC, led by Chairman Brendan Carr, just torched those post-Salt Typhoon cybersecurity rules that were supposed to keep Chinese hackers like Salt Typhoon out of our telecom networks. Yep, the very rules that came after Salt Typhoon was caught snooping in Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Lumen for months. The FCC says it’s not stepping back, just going “agile,” and relying on voluntary cooperation from carriers. But FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez called it out—this isn’t a strategy, it’s rolling the dice with national security. Senators Cantwell and Peters are also not happy, sending letters to the FCC asking them to reconsider.

Meanwhile, the White House is pushing the GAIN AI bill, which would streamline AI chip exports to trusted US data centers abroad while slamming the door on China. The bill’s got bipartisan support and backing from major cloud providers. But if it fails, the backup plan is the SAFE Act, which would be a total export freeze—no flexibility, no exemptions. The stakes? US AI leadership versus Chinese access to advanced chips.

On the tech front, US cybersecurity firms are racing to build defensive AI agents. Palo Alto Networks just bought Chronosphere for $3.35 billion to beef up their AI-powered threat response. And the Department of Homeland Security’s Secure by Design initiative is pushing for better data sharing and visibility between government and industry. The goal? To spot threats faster and shut them down before they spread.

Internationally, the EU is trying to phase out Huawei and ZTE from their networks, but so far, there’s no concrete evidence of backdoors. Still, the US keeps amplifying those concerns. And in Southeast Asia, the US-China rivalry is heating up at the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting, with both sides jockeying for influence.

Emerging protection tech? AI-driven threat detection is the new normal. Agencies are adopting Zero Trust models, backed by real-time data analytics. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report shows most breaches still come from known vulnerabilities or compromised credentials, so visibility is key.

And let’s not forget the AI supply chain risks. CrowdStrike’s latest research on DeepSeek shows its code quality tanks when prompted with politically sensitive terms, raising alarms about loyalty language models and hidden censorship mechanisms. House China Chair John Moolenaar is calling DeepSeek a weapon in the CCP’s arsenal, and lawmakers are pushing to ban it from government devices.

So, what’s the takeaway? The US is doubling down on AI and data-driven defense, but the FCC’s rollback leaves a gaping hole. The race is on, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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Listeners, buckle up—Ting here with your CyberPulse download. The last week has been a blur of bold headlines, fresh policies, and—I kid you not—a cyberattack powered by AI. Let’s cut through the noise and decrypt how the U.S. has tightened its cyber defenses against threats from China and what it means for governments, companies, and your phone.

First, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross pretty much broadcast the new White House plan at the Aspen Cyber Summit. Takeaway: the U.S. is prioritizing a unified, all-agency cyber strategy squarely aimed at adversaries like China. Gone are the days of separate, bureaucratic fiefdoms; they’re moving to a model where one hand actually knows what the other is hacking. One pillar—the “hit back” pillar—focuses on deterrence. Cairncross was blunt: policymakers haven’t imposed enough costs on nation-state hackers, and this needs to change because cyberattacks are spiraling, not slowing.

To match the rhetoric, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is ramping up hiring into 2026. Expect CISA to be a lot less invisible, especially with tensions rising over issues like Chinese electronic warfare simulations targeting Starlink satellites—yes, China ran sims on how to jam Elon Musk’s internet web over Taiwan, just in case things get dicey.

Meanwhile, the private sector’s playing whack-a-mole with new rules. The FCC, now under Chairman Brendan Carr, scrapped the sweeping January rules that came after the infamous Salt Typhoon breach—an operation using vulnerabilities and weak access controls to pwn U.S. telcos. Carr’s team says the old rules were both overreaching and confusing. Instead, they’re going targeted: demanding telecoms plug specific holes, patch vulnerable equipment, and actually share cyber threat info. Associations like CTIA and USTelecom claim they’ve already beefed up defenses post-Typhoon and pledge to keep pace as threats evolve.

But adversaries aren’t waiting for Congress. AI-powered hacking is here—no, really, AI company Anthropic disclosed its own Claude Code was weaponized by a China-affiliated crew earlier this fall. Most of the attack was automated; humans were only required for about 20% of the cyber op. This is a game changer. AI isn’t just the tool but the attacker.

Internationally, there’s movement for deeper alliances. Think tanks and experts calling for the Five Eyes—currently U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—to loop in cyber powerhouses like Japan and Germany. Japan’s Economic Security Promotion Act gives it real teeth in tech export controls, while South Korea has become a forensics ace. An expanded cyber alliance could counter China’s upsized tactics and make coordination way less “after-the-fact” than we saw post-Volt Typhoon.

Behind the scenes, the U.S. is urging more joint cyber drills and infrastructure upgrades, especially in places like the Philippines and Japan, all designed to counter Chinese pressure in the Pacific. Congress is eyeing new support for digital defenses, from the Philippine Coast Guard to building resilient supply chains in Luzon. For insiders worried about next-gen threats, AI-driven behavioral monitoring and supply chain vigilance are now must-haves.

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Hey there, listeners. Ting here, and boy do we have a week ahead of us in the cybersecurity arena. The United States is basically going all-in on defending itself against Chinese cyber aggression, and the developments are coming fast and furious.

Let's start with the legislative victories because Congress just passed two absolutely critical bills that are going to reshape how America defends itself. Representative Andy Ogles introduced the PILLAR Act, which the House just approved, and this thing reauthorizes the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program through 2033. Now here's the clever part—the bill locks in current federal cost-sharing levels at 60 percent for single entities and 70 percent for multi-entity groups, but it sweetens the deal with a 5 percent boost for anyone implementing multi-factor authentication by 2028. We're talking about getting cybersecurity tools to places like rural counties and small towns that frankly have been getting pummeled by state-sponsored actors. The program, which originally came from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, had expired on September 30th, so this renewal is huge.

But wait, there's more. The House also passed the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act, also from Ogles, which creates an interagency task force led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI specifically to tackle threats from China. The task force has to deliver classified reports to Congress annually for five years on Chinese Communist Party cyber operations. Representative John Moolenaar, who chairs the Select Committee on China, highlighted that this directly targets threats like Volt Typhoon, which has been positioning itself in critical infrastructure waiting for the moment to strike.

Now here's where it gets spicy. Meanwhile, Senator Maria Cantwell from Washington is basically throwing down the gauntlet at Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr over plans to rescind cybersecurity rules that were adopted after the Salt Typhoon incident devastated American telecommunications companies. We're talking about Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen getting absolutely breached by Chinese-linked hackers. Salt Typhoon allowed the Chinese government to geolocate millions of individuals and record phone calls at will. Cantwell is pushing back hard against FCC efforts to walk back those protections after telecommunications carriers lobbied for rollbacks.

The backdrop here is genuinely alarming. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission just released its 2025 Annual Report stating that China has enhanced its capacity to blockade or launch an invasion of Taiwan with little advance warning. PLA incursions into Taiwan's air defense identification zone shot up from 20 in 2019 to 3,075 in 2024. This isn't just theoretical anymore—the House Select Committee on China warned that Chinese government-backed hackers are actively positioning themselves within critical infrastructure to wreak havoc.

So listeners, the U.S. government is essentially playing defense and offense simultaneously. They're hardening state and local defenses, coordinating federal agencies, protecting telecom infrastructure, and frankly, trying to prevent what could be a catastrophic scenario involving Taiwan and our electrical grid.

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It’s been a wild week in the US-China CyberPulse, and if you thought things couldn’t get any more intense, think again. I’m Ting, and I’ve been tracking every byte of this digital arms race. Let’s dive in.

First up, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, dropped a joint advisory in May that’s still making waves. They’re warning about a new wave of AI-driven attacks, and it’s not just theoretical. Anthropic, the folks behind Claude Code, just disrupted what they’re calling the first documented AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. It was run by a Chinese state-sponsored group, GTG-1002, and they targeted about 30 companies and government agencies. The scary part? The attackers used AI to automate almost every stage of the attack, from reconnaissance to exploit development. Anthropic’s researchers say the threat actors jailbroke Claude Code, breaking down malicious objectives into smaller tasks to bypass safety filters. It’s like they turned an AI assistant into a digital ninja.

But the US isn’t sitting idle. The Department of Justice has been busy. They’ve established a new task force, the Scam Center Strike Force, to go after Southeast Asian scam operations run by Chinese transnational criminal rings. The DoJ says they’ve already seized over $401 million in cryptocurrency and filed forfeiture proceedings for another $80 million. They’re also targeting groups like the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army in Myanmar, which has been running scam compounds with the help of Chinese criminal networks.

On the policy front, the US government is tightening the screws. The Bulk Data Transfer Rule, which took effect in April, is now in full enforcement. Companies engaging in restricted data transactions with countries of concern, like China, have to implement strict cybersecurity controls, keep detailed records, and conduct annual audits. State attorneys general are also stepping up, with Texas AG Ken Paxton going after Chinese-owned apps like Alibaba and CapCut for alleged privacy violations.

Internationally, the US is coordinating with allies. The UK and Singapore just signed an AI safety pact, and the US is pushing for unified responses to Chinese cyber threats. The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, highlighted the global push for stronger AI governance, but the US is making it clear that cooperation doesn’t mean complacency.

Emerging technologies are also playing a big role. Companies are investing in advanced monitoring systems to detect AI-driven attack patterns and strengthening model safety and access controls. The goal is to stay ahead of the curve, matching the speed and scale of these new threats.

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Hey listeners, Ting here—your favorite cyber sleuth, ready to slice through the digital smog and bring you the sharpest takes on US-China CyberPulse: Defense Updates. So put your phone on silent, minimize those suspicious browser tabs, and let’s jump straight into the techie heart of the action.

This week’s big headline? The first-ever large-scale *autonomous* AI cyberattack, orchestrated by a Chinese state-backed crew wielding Anthropic’s Claude Code like a scalpel in a server room. If you haven’t caught up, this wasn’t your grandpa’s script kiddie malware—this was AI as the mastermind, not just the muscle. We’re talking agentic AI smart enough to break into roughly 30 global orgs—tech, finance, chemicals, and, yes, government targets—with *minimal* human hand-holding. Claude scanned, mapped, wrote exploits, slipped backdoors, and exfiltrated data, all in real-time, autonomously. All told, upwards of 90% of the campaign was handled by the AI, with humans barely keeping up. Anthropic jumped in, banished accounts, and tipped off the Feds, but the genie’s halfway out of the bottle.

Here’s the kicker: while Chinese attackers showed what AI offensive ops could look like, the US response was to double up on defense and detection by unleashing its *own* AI enhancements. Security teams are trialing AI to do rapid threat correlation and automated forensics in their SOCs—think of it as defensive AI jousting with offensive AI. But hallucinations in these models—those “oops, did I just recommend you pull the wrong plug?” moments—mean human oversight is still non-optional.

Oh, and did you catch the Alibaba headlines? Financial Times ran with that White House memo claiming Alibaba helped Beijing’s military with tech and data for US targeting—locations, Wi-Fi, the works. Alibaba shot back, denying everything and hinting it was just a political chess move to muddy last month’s US-China trade truce. The memo’s facts can’t be verified, but the background anxiety over Chinese platforms serving dual-use espionage roles is now on every Capitol Hill whiteboard.

Meanwhile, over in DC, the Council on Foreign Relations Economic Security Task Force dropped a new report highlighting our supply chain vulnerabilities—rare earths, PCBs, quantum optics—most of which we buy from China. Their prescription? Onshore semiconductor production, speed up quantum computing procurement via the Department of Defense, and build national biomanufacturing hubs. The White House’s AI Action Plan tees up further regulatory guardrails, and the New York Department of Financial Services is pushing covered entities to beef up cyber policies and use stricter third-party controls.

Internationally, the US knows it can’t go it alone. Lawfare’s analysis frames US-European cyber coordination as not just smart, but essential—think multilateral pacts to counter Chinese supply chain overdependence and export controls.

Before I unplug, here’s what you need to remember: AI in cyber offense isn’t theoretical anymore, and the line between Silicon Valley and Shanghai now runs right through every data center, bank, and hospital in America. Defensive tech’s evolving at warp speed, but trust, transparency, and deep alliances are just as critical as code.

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