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China's AI competition fractures Trump administration's AI policy coalition
MIT Technology Review reports that Chinese AI model progress has triggered public infighting among current and former Trump AI advisors, including AI czar David Sacks, directed at leading US AI companies. The piece covers the political and strategic tensions within the US AI policy establishment over how to respond to Chinese competition. This signals meaningful fractures in the US government's approach to AI industrial policy at a critical moment in the US-China AI race.
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