Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s chatbot Kimi closely mirrors Anthropic’s Claude, highlighting how imitation, distillation, and API compatibility have become common practices in the global AI race. The episode underscores how cost, geopolitics, and weak cross-border enforcement shape AI competition alongside innovation.

The Munich Security Conference reveals a shift in transatlantic ties as AI security becomes central to global debate. Europe is increasingly linking AI policy to technological autonomy, seeking to balance cooperation with the United States while strengthening its own strategic capabilities.

In November 2024, US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping made their first substantive joint statement about the national-security risks posed b

As artificial intelligence rapidly expands, the United States and China face similar sustainability challenges, but their responses differ starkly — shaping AI’s long-term environmental footprint.

The success of the Manhattan Project was the result of specific historical conditions. Its model of concentrating resources to achieve a single technological breakthrough doesn’t fit the characteristics and competitive landscape of the AI era.

In a few short years AI technology has already become a legitimate threat to the earth’s environment. Without guardrails put in place, the competition between the U.S. and China could outstrip current infrastructure.

Advanced technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, and quantum computing, have emerged at the heart of most nations’ national strategic planning. China also developed national plans for technological breakthroughs. However, unlike most other countries, China’s current plans are heavily influenced by unprecedented US export curbs on acquiring technology. These steep and targeted export curbs are intended to prevent China from acquiring high technologies to maintain the US monopoly. They started during the first term of US President Donald Trump (2017-2021), continued during the Biden administration, and intensified since Trump’s second term.

The U.S. and China are locked in a new “Battle for the Commanding Heights,” centered not on ideology but on control of critical technologies such as chips, AI, and robotics. While the United States retains major advantages, China’s hybrid model of state guidance and private entrepreneurship gives it powerful momentum, and America risks losing its edge if it underinvests or misreads the competition.

America’s AI Action Plan reveals the close ideological alignment of the Trump administration with the “tech right,” such as permissionless innovation, anti-woke AI and pro-capital innovation culture.

China’s industrial policy, including its “Delete America” initiative and major state investments, has secured dominance in legacy chips and reduced reliance on U.S. technology. While still dependent on American AI chips, Chinese firms like Huawei are quickly developing competitive alternatives, threatening U.S. chipmakers.