{"id":554445,"date":"2026-08-01T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554445\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:17:15","slug":"us-lawmakers-investigate-doordashs-use-of-moonshot-ais-kimi-k2-6-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554445\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers investigate DoorDash\u2019s use of Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi K2.6 model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The move underscores growing tensions between US lawmakers and industry, as Chinese AI models have become increasingly popular among US companies looking to save costs of AI adoption.<\/p>\n<p>House Select Committee on China chairman <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3256695\/new-chairman-named-us-house-select-committee-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Moolenaar<\/a> and House Committee on Homeland Security chairman Andrew Garbarino sent a letter on Friday to DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu, requesting information by August 14 on each Chinese model DoorDash uses and any security tests conducted on those models.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The letter also requests that DoorDash staff \u201cwith responsibility for DoorDash\u2019s AI infrastructure, software security, model evaluation, procurement, and legal or compliance review\u201d appear for an in-person briefing with the lawmakers by August 21.<\/p>\n<p>Will China\u2019s new AI model Kimi K3 create another DeepSeek moment?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201c[The] Committees recognise that US companies, from large technology firms to start-ups, may evaluate and deploy PRC-developed open-weight models because they can provide competitive capabilities, lower costs, greater customisation, and alternatives to reliance on a small number of proprietary model providers,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThose practical considerations do not eliminate the need for risk-based safeguards or diminish the national security concerns associated with growing dependence on models developed by entities subject to PRC jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The move underscores growing tensions between US lawmakers and industry, as Chinese AI models have become increasingly popular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,6527,272261,6166,272263,363,364,607,133805,272262,75553,190992,4452,111,139,69,620,272264,9743,145,272260],"class_list":["post-554445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-airbnb","tag-andrew-garbarino","tag-anthropic","tag-anysphere","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-doordash","tag-house-select-committee-on-china","tag-john-moolenaar","tag-kimi","tag-moonshot-ai","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-openai","tag-prc","tag-san-francisco","tag-technology","tag-tony-xu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}