$2.7 billion wasn’t enough to keep him. The man who invented modern AI has left Google for OpenAI — and the timing, against the backdrop of America’s worst AI policy week in years, could not be more revealing.
Same week. Two opposite strategies. America restricted its best AI over suspicion. China gave its best AI away — for free, with no restrictions, beating Google in the process.
One suspected China link. No formal proof. And Anthropic’s most advanced AI models went offline globally. How thin does the evidence need to be to trigger an AI export ban?
From 1,000 views and dozens of comments to absolute zero — the moment watchchina.ai complied with TikTok’s AI disclosure rules, its algorithmic reach collapsed completely. Here is what that tells us about platform power.
Washington’s alarm is now official. A new CNAS report identifies four Chinese AI threat vectors — and warns that 80% of US startups are already building on Chinese models. The implications are profound.