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John Moolenaar

U.S. Representative (R-MI) who chairs the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with China, focusing on national security and tech policy.

Known aliases

  • Congressman John Moolenaar
  • John Moolenaar (R-MI)
  • Rep. John Moolenaar

Current stories

securityConfirmed7 publishers

TA419 courts AI policy experts before phishing their cloud accounts

Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 has posed as a former White House official and an Anthropic employee to phish AI policy experts since at least April 2025. The first approach asks for nothing; the credential-stealing link follows only after a target replies.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 28%
Operator
Operator 59%
Investor
Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives30
Confidence65
productOne report1 publisher

Ro Khanna presses DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI on kill switches and outside inspection

Rep. Ro Khanna asked DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI if they would be prepared for an incident like this summer's OpenAI-agent hack of Hugging Face. The letters target frontier labs, but the incident they cite is one any team shipping agents has to plan for.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence50
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Export controls follow the chip into somebody else's data center

The Trump administration is reportedly working out how to bar Chinese renters from GPU capacity in Vietnam and Singapore, which moves the compliance surface from owning hardware to access that US law has never governed well.

Publishers:forbes.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+22
Incentives62
Confidence42