DeepSeek distilling Open AI?; Japan seizes PRC fishing boat; US-China; CIA video targets PLA; Spring Festival Internet cleanup

Bloomberg reports that OpenAI has sent a memo to the House Select Committee on China accusing DeepSeek of surreptitiously distilling OpenAI models to “free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other US frontier labs.” I thought this was an open secret? And yes, I understand the irony of industrial-scale copyright violating OpenAI accusing another firm of IP theft. But if true, it does dent the narrative around DeepSeek, especially as everyone expects their next model within the next few days, which is probably why OpenAI sent (and leaked?) this memo now. But it is not just DeepSeek; Kimi’s latest model was caught referring to itself as Claude.