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is the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ >> john: it was an earthquake today in the world of artificial intelligence. good evening, i am john dickerson. >> maurice: i am maurice dubois. aftershock from washington to wall street and silicon valley. signs that china may be catching up to the united states in the ai race sending tech stocks plunging. >> john: a chinese start up called deepseek has created an ai model and a much lower cost than the u.s. competition. the ai system today was apple's most downloaded app surpassing the ai app chatgpt and threads. a social media app. >> maurice: california nvidia that empowers the chips that make ai lost $600 million and the biggest loss by a company ever. ai will be growing and lives a medicine, transportation education and beyond. >> john: it's being called a sputnik moment for america's ai

industry, that's a reference to the panic in the u.s. when the soviets pulled ahead in the space race in the 1950s. so margaret brennan joins us from washington. sputnik moment, or is that overhyped? >> reporter: well, it could be a sputnik moment or a shot across the bow. all that matters, john and maurice, because china and the the u.s. are in a an arms race when it comes to ai. former president biden said it's the most consequential technology of all time possibly, and opposes profound risk. this technological leap is made by china's deepseek using inferior computer chips that cost 20-30 times less then leading american firms really got the attention of ceos and investors that i have spoken with today who think this could drive more urgency amongst companies to innovate. if the technology is lower-cost more people may use it. and president trump's ai's are said today, we can't be complacent. we know the last administration tried to keep america's edge in the space by banning high-tech

chips from being sold to china. so news that a chinese firm claims they did all of this with basic computer chips does raise national security concerns. >> maurice: what are those national security implications margaret? how do we expect the trump white house to respond here? >> reporter: we don't know yet maurice. we have spoken to people who are always skeptical about believing what any chinese firm claims because of the tight control on industry. so they are not completely convinced that deepseek is being honest when they claim they achieved a breakthrough on their own. but in terms of risk. a ceo i spoke with today joked deepseek makes tiktok look like "sesame street." meaning the u.s. is trying to ban that social media app tiktok because of evidence that its owner can and will siphon up information about americans and use it to control and shape information that they consume. so deepseek could do the same in the ai space, and at this hour millions of americans have downloaded it.

so keep in mind here, chinese law requires companies to assist in intelligence gathering if it is requested by their government. >> maurice: okay, margaret brennan in washington thank you. >> john: there is another chinese threat to u.s. security and also involves high technology. >> maurice: jim axelrod shows you how chinese spies are using social media to get american military secrets. >> reporter: it was here on the sprawling seaside navy base in california where thomas zhao then a 26-year-old naval electrician admitted to passing sensitive documents to an undercover chinese intelligence officer. we obtained this recording of his confession. >> so why were you taking money from him? >> free money. it's just taking a couple of pictures print. >> he absolutely betrayed his country. >> reporter: sitting across from zhao on that day and 2023 ncis special agent brian noris. >> i think he over the past two years had a relationship he knew was nefarious.

and i think that he was realizing he was finally caught. >> reporter: the gig was up? >> exactly. >> reporter: that nefarious relationship began on a chinese-owned social media app wechat, the chinese intelligence officer posed as an investor. >> the chinese officer posed himself as an investor looking at the global markets. >> reporter: by then, norris told us, covid had made it more difficult for spies to travel abroad, so china's intelligence officer started leaning on virtual espionage. gleaning military secrets through online contacts. in the last two years, federal law enforcement agents have told us they have identified about a dozen such cases. they have secured convictions against three service members recruited by suspected undercover agents of china. >> they will turn over every stone to try to collect what they can. >> reporter: kevin vorndran heads the intelligence commission. u.s. officials told us china is trolling professional networking

sites including linkedin to find american service members and others who hold u.s. government security clearances. >> members of the military former members of the military list their resumes and exposes their expertise. and through that makes targeting by an intelligent services and sophisticated intelligence service simple to accomplish. >> reporter: in zhao's case what started as chats about stock trades veered into sensitive areas. questions about naval exercises in the pacific where china threatens to challenge u.s. strength. >> in the end he received a proximately $15,000. >> reporter: court records reveal zhao to take photographs and videos of restricted areas and told him to destroy evidence of their communications. how does that not raise every red flag available to thomas zhao? >> it should have. and zhao stated he question the intelligence officer

occasionally. >> when i try to cut the relationship with him, it was already kind of late. >> do you feel like you're trapped? >> yeah. >> reporter: zhao, u.s. citizen since he was 12 was arrested, pleaded guilty in this currently serving more than two years for bribery and conspiracy. but his actions did not rise to the level of espionage. >> i was like, this is impossible. >> reporter: his wife told us while her husband made a mistake, he was just as shocked as anyone that he was dealing with a chinese intelligence officer. was thomas zhao scammed, or did he willfully and knowingly betray his country? >> he would never do that. he would never betray his country. that's not him. >> reporter: a spokesperson for china's u.s. embassy denied knowledge of the zhao case telling cbs news it "hopes the united states will stop hyping

up the so-called chinese espionage risk." but the ncis agent we just heard from ryan norris told us he expects the chinese are paying close attention and he thinks they will be watching the story @tonight to see if they can lean anything about what led investigators to thomas zhao. >> john: former fbi director ray said this threat from the chinese, the technical thread is the biggest possible threat. let me ask you about zhao, jim. low-level guy. so what does this say about the chinese net they are casting? >> reporter: it should give us a sense of how wide that net is right? thomas zhao is a low level. forget the cloak and dagger stuff you think of when you think of espionage. the back alley drops of top-secret files. this is thousands of chinese agents, they don't even have to travel here. sitting in computer labels in beijing that they only have to hit once. and get this, the fbi told us that the volume of espionage activity that the chinese are directing at the united states

right now surpasses the volume sent to the united states from all other countries combined. >> maurice: it's rare for the fbi to talk about this kind of thing publicly, so why do we think they are going public with it? >> reporter: in this new kind of espionage, this virtual espionage, one of the only tools available is awareness. in other words, every current service member or retired service member, any one with access that the chinese might want is a target. so the chinese wants to make them aware that this is going on. it was unusual and struck us that it was unusual. it tells us about the nature of the threat and just how seriously they are taking it. >> john: jim axelrod thank you, jim. >> maurice: now some of the top stories from around the world and the evening news roundup, the first significant brain to hit southern california in eight months touched off mudslides in areas scarred by wildfires. lonnie quinn will have an update later in the broadcast. >> john: i.c.e. agents sunday detained nearly 1,000 members

for deportation. that's the most during the last year of the biden adminstration. >> maurice: in poland today the ceremony at auschwitz, site of a nazi death camp, 80 years after it was liberated. 56 people who were freed that day we were in attendance. >> john: and president donald trump is meeting tonight with house republicans in miami. robert costa reports it's a date to head off internal fights in the party over tax cuts spending, and the debt limit. >> maurice: still ahead here on tonight's "cbs evening news." >> reporter: i am mark strassman. here in the los angeles fire wreckage, another disaster is smoldering. people who are uninsured or underinsured and face staggering losses. >> reporter: i am elizabeth palmer in east jerusalem. as a flood of gazans return to their destroyed communities, the terrorist group that started the war with israel is planning a comeback. that's next on the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ bs evening news."

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>> reporter: hamas terrorist started the war on october 7 2023, when they attacked israel and murdered more than 1,000 people. but 15 months of relentless israeli bombing has sent wiped them out. their hand over last saturday of four is really hostages was a spectacle to project power and draw new recruits. >> joining hamas as revenge for what i went through for no reason and for no crime i committed. >> reporter: a retired general with the get israeli defense forces. >> they can recruit thousands of people. it's not even a question. and definitely, there is enough hatred therefore young people to join the hamas. >> reporter: did the idea know

going in that they were going to create a new generation of hamas fighters who are motivated by real rage? >> it's inevitable. when you get through the next generation with hatred. >> reporter: hatred rooted in despair. the prospects in gaza cannot be bleaker. virtually no jobs, no homes, and no future. so it's key that israel offers gazans an alternative? >> absolutely. if israel will not to push for an alternative, i think that it's already on a matter of time until the hamas, which is already there, they never left will rebuild itself and the next october 7th, it's only a question of time. >> maurice: liz palmer joins us now from east jerusalem. and as that young man see any other path forward than

violence? >> reporter: he did speak longingly of a future for himself without violence, but he said that you need stability in time to plan one. and he has just going to have his hands full finding food and shelter and water to keep his little brother and sister alive. so for young men like him, hamas is the default. it's organized. it offers structure and salaries. >> john: and to liz, that general said there needed to be some alternative to violence, so what would that look like? >> reporter: well, first we need to cease-fire to hold. secondly, it needs billions and billions of dollars of reconstruction money from international donors. and thirdly, he needs a peace plan leading to a palestinian state and one that does not include hamas. at this stage, all of those are long shots. >> maurice: liz palmer in east jerusalem tonight. thank you so much. >> john: the rain in southern california is ending. >> maurice: and lonnie quinn says it's running the snow in arizona. lonnie. >> reporter: you but you

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