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US agencies accuse Chinese AI firms of industrial-scale model distillationUS law-enforcement and intelligence officials alleged that companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba used distillation to train their own systems from American models. The statement said the activity likely had Chinese government awareness and could improve military and cyber capabilities, claims Beijing rejected.→NSA seeks access to commercial AI models for pre-release cyber testingNSA deputy director Tim Kosiba said the agency wants access to all commercial AI models and is discussing arrangements with leading developers. Under a voluntary White House pre-release testing framework, the NSA could receive up to 30 days of access for classified cyber-capability tests, although no operational programme or participating labs were confirmed.→Smack raises $61 million to bring domain-specific AI to the tactical edgeSmack Technologies said it raised $61 million in a Series B led by Costanoa Ventures and First In, bringing total capital above $90 million. It said the funding will expand its Omega strategic-planning platform and Alpha tactical platform, including proprietary hardware for deployment in communications- and compute-constrained environments.→