The US just realized it brought export controls to an open-source fight. AI has become a central tension point in Trump-Xi talks, with Chinese open-weight models closing the gap on US systems despite export restrictions
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The UK wants global AI guardrails, Trump wants none, and Xi Jinping is coming to dinner—whoever controls the narrative this week controls the next decade of AI development.
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The man who bet early on OpenAI just drew the line: protect displaced workers, not obsolete jobs. Vinod Khosla argues America must accelerate AI development or risk handing China strategic supremacy, while protecting people through transition support instead of job preservation
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While Congress debates banning superintelligence, Trump is pre-emptively telling Xi that America won't limit its AI ambitions — even as the two superpowers meet to talk trade, Taiwan, and who gets to build the future.
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The only thing stranger than Democrats asking Trump to negotiate with China is that chips, not missiles, are the weapon everyone's fighting over. Democrats are pushing Trump to negotiate an AI safety agreement with China, even as Schumer warns against easing export controls on AI chips to Beijing.
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While the West debates whether AI agents will break containment, DeepSeek just published a blueprint for teaching them to behave without brute-force oversight. DeepSeek released details on a new training method for AI agents that improves learning efficiency while reducing problematic outputs
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Washington just figured out that exporting dollars doesn't require printing presses anymore. The US is considering a coordinated push to promote dollar-backed stablecoins internationally, potentially involving private companies and multiple government agencies
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China's brightest AI companies are under investigation for allegedly training their models on stolen conversations with a U.S. competitor, and the irony is thick enough to cut with a blade.
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The CEO of the company racing toward AGI just told the UN that humanity needs "meaningful control" over AI—while his engineers build systems that can already rewrite their own code.
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A sitting U.S. senator just proposed treating AI research like manufacturing fentanyl. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced legislation that would ban the development of artificial superintelligence and impose up to 20 years in prison for violations
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Anthropic's CEO just learned that asking your competitor to slow down works better when you're not losing. Dario Amodei pitched Chinese officials on slowing AI development at a private summit; Beijing engineers responded with mockery and accusations of competitive gatekeeping
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The company building Nvidia's AI infrastructure just erased its biggest customer from the investor deck. Nscale, Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider, buried mentions of ByteDance — its largest customer in 2024 — in materials for its $35bn IPO
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The man who controls the Treasury might soon control AI policy too, and bond markets are already nervous about what that means for compute spending.
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The people building the most powerful prediction engines in history will now brief the group responsible for preventing World War III. OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and China's DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week in an unprecedented gathering
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The race isn't just about who builds the smartest model — it's about who controls the silicon, the talent pipeline, and the narrative about what AI should become.
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The Pentagon just told AI companies to build models that won't say no, right as it starts deploying autonomous weapons that might need to.
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When your homegrown AI champions leak training data to the competition, it's not just a security breach—it's a sovereignty problem. China has opened an investigation into DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over allegations they leaked proprietary data to Anthropic, the US-based AI lab behind Claude
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While everyone watched Dubai and Singapore compete for AI supremacy, a landlocked former Soviet republic quietly became America's newest chip colony. Armenia is emerging as a major hub for US AI infrastructure, leveraging its Soviet-era electronics expertise and geopolitical positioning
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The two countries building rival AI superpowers are about to negotiate over the one thing neither can do without: each other. Trump and Xi are meeting in DC with AI hardware exports and tech restrictions on the table as primary bargaining chips
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Wall Street's Bitcoin bet just crossed $999 million in a single week, and retail traders slept through it. BlackRock's IBIT led $999M in US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows while BTC pushed above $81,000, with BlackRock alone pouring $370M into the rally
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