🎙 EP 383: US-China AI Race Shifts to $45B & AI Hackers Execute Breach on 2,250 Companies

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The global AI competition accelerated into a massive capital confrontation as DeepSeek secured roughly 100 billion yuan ($15B) in new funding while OpenAI targeted a $30 billion round at a $1.25 trillion valuation. On the security front, Chinese state-linked threat actors leveraged the ARTEX open-source agentic framework to automate a supply-chain breach targeting over 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants at a peak execution speed of 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute.

We’ll talk about:

• DeepSeek raising $15 billion toward a prospective Shanghai IPO while OpenAI pursues $30 billion at a $1.25T valuation target.
• Threat actors utilizing the ARTEX autonomous penetration-testing framework to execute rapid password-spraying and OAuth abuse.
• Year-old AI software lab attracting capital to overhaul GPU execution stacks and drive down training and inference overhead.
• Enterprise release of specialized, high-speed decision primitive across APIs and the OpenAI Platform.

Keywords: DeepSeek, OpenAI, Microsoft 365, OpenAI Decisions API.

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