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South Koreans show the highest global enthusiasm for AI, with only 16% expressing concern versus 50% of Americans. The US restricted Anthropic AI access citing foreign intelligence risks, prompting Anthropic to disable new model access. DeepSeek raised $7 billion in its first funding round, becoming China's most valuable AI startup at over $50 billion valuation. Other highlights include Alibaba's robot AI models, Fox acquiring Roku for $22 billion, EA launching in-game advertising, and research showing Reddit can be used to manipulate AI search results. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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