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Treasury Outlaws US AI Investment in China, Adds Russia Too IBM's Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. High-performance computing and supercomputing are among the new technology categories the US Treasury wants to bring under outbound-investment screening. Photo: Carlos Jones / Oak Ridge National Laboratory, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Update, Oct. 23: comment docket and the March 13, 2027 deadline Two details have firmed up since this story first published. Treasury opened the proposal for public comment through December 7, 2026, on regulations.gov under docket number TREAS-DO-2026-0595 — the window in which investors, chip firms and universities can try to shape the final definitions. And the timeline is no longer guesswork: the COINS Act, signed December 18, 2025, gives Treasury up to 450 days to issue the final regulations, which puts the statutory deadline at March 13, 2027. (Docket via madrobot.blog, Oct. 23; statutory analysis via T...

OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts this week after discovering they were being run from Russia to operate a fake Latin American think tank — fronted by a researcher named "Mia Clark" who never existed. It was the most ambitious deception operation the company says it has ever disrupted, and the first it has rated a Category 5 threat: the second-highest level on its influence-operations scale, and a tier no campaign had reached in two and a half years of reporting. In the same report, published Thursday, October 8, OpenAI disclosed a second, separate takedown: seven fabricated journalists, invented by an Iran-origin network, who spent more than a year pitching and placing nearly 100 articles in real online news outlets. The two cases share one uncomfortable lesson. The propagandists have stopped shouting on social media. They have started filing copy. Photo: OpenAI's website viewed through a magnifying glass. The company says its investigation uncovered the m...