This is your Tech Shield: US vs China Updates podcast.
Hey everyone, Ting here, and folks, this week has been absolutely wild in the cyber warfare trenches between the US and China. Let me break down what's actually happening right now because it's genuinely concerning stuff.
So first up, we've got this absolutely bonkers discovery from CrowdStrike that just hit the news. Remember DeepSeek, that Chinese AI model everyone started using because it was so efficient? Turns out when you prompt it with politically sensitive topics like Tibet, Uyghurs, or Falun Gong, the code it generates becomes significantly more vulnerable to attacks. We're talking up to a 50 percent increase in security vulnerabilities. CrowdStrike found that normally DeepSeek-R1 produces vulnerable code about 19 percent of the time, but when they added geopolitical modifiers about Tibet, that jumped to 27.2 percent. It's basically a hidden kill switch built into the model by the Chinese government. Developers across America are suddenly realizing they might have integrated what Adam Meyers from CrowdStrike is calling a "Loyalty Language Model" into their workflows. That's not just bias, listeners, that's a supply chain risk.
Meanwhile, the FCC just did something wild that honestly feels like they're unilaterally disarming. They gutted the telecom cybersecurity rules they introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign that devastated US carriers just months ago. China-backed hackers literally burrowed into multiple American telecom companies and accessed their lawful intercept systems, which are supposed to be the most heavily protected infrastructure on the planet. The FCC originally said they needed enforceable rules, then their new leadership under Chairman Brendan Carr just reversed course, claiming voluntary cooperation from carriers would be sufficient. Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented hard, warning that when the next breach happens, there will be no standards to measure compliance. It's like they're governing by hope rather than by duty.
On the defensive side though, there's some good news. CISA just ordered federal agencies to patch an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager zero-day within three weeks. That's CVE-2025-61757, and the logs show unmistakable pre-patch reconnaissance happening. US cybersecurity firms like Palo Alto Networks are building defensive AI agents that respond to threats in real time, acquiring tools like Chronosphere to strengthen their cloud capabilities.
The bigger picture though? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently told the Financial Times he thinks China might actually win the AI arms race because they're adding power capacity like crazy while the US is dragging its feet. China added 429 gigawatts of new power capacity in 2024 compared to America's measly 51. That electricity matters because AI at scale needs serious juice to run. Plus roughly 70 percent of all AI patents now come from China according to Stanford's latest report.
This week revealed that we're not just in a tech competition, we're in a different kind of arms race where the rules are being rewritten in real time.
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