Good morning, and welcome back to Techzip AI Newsletter.

Today's AI story is about who can build, deploy and verify the systems, not just who has the strongest model. DeepSeek and Huawei are challenging Nvidia's software moat even as DeepSeek narrows the US-China benchmark gap to 3%. Sam Altman argues against waiting for zero-risk AI, while drawing a line at loss of control. And VeriHarness shows why agent consensus is not proof: agents need to check outputs against evidence, not simply repeat one another. Here are the shifts shaping AI infrastructure, model competition and reliable agent workflows.