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The Treasury Department proposed rules under the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security Act (COINS) that would add biotechnology to the list of national-security-restricted sectors (alongside semiconductors, AI, and quantum), prohibiting U.S. financial transactions with Chinese biotech companies and biotech equipment/tool manufacturers — while carving out U.S. pharma's ability to in-license China-invented drugs.
STAT+ reports rumors that the U.S. Treasury Department may propose a rule as soon as this week restricting American investment in China's biotech sector, a development that would materially affect cross-border biotech VC and M&A activity.
DHS has ordered all federal civilian agencies to strip DeepSeek products — including third-party offerings built on DeepSeek implementations — from their IT systems and prohibited future purchases from the Chinese AI developer or its affiliates.
The Department of Homeland Security will ban DeepSeek's AI from federal civilian agency systems over national security concerns, including data transfers to China-based servers, potential malware, and risk to federal IT infrastructure.
A judge ordered former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, accused of spying on executives, to remain in custody, rejecting a Saudi government-backed release offer likened to a blank check.
The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee accused of planting a hidden recording device in a company conference room, allegedly to capture sensitive communications about OpenAI's superintelligence technology.
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