Trump and Xi spent hours on AI and reached no deal — just an agreement not to govern it. watchchina.ai predicted exactly this for four months. The non-outcome is the story: the race now belongs to chips, power, and open-source code.
Amodei asked the world to pace AI for safety — then demanded China’s chips be cut off in the same essay. Beijing called it a Cold War playbook. And the dilemma Amodei himself admits reveals the structural tragedy of the whole race.
“BREAKING: China made it illegal for AI to take your job” is going viral. It’s wrong three ways. But the real ruling — you can’t be fired just because an AI can do your work — is quietly more significant, and no Western country has matched it.
“Now or never.” The US and China are preparing their first-ever AI safety talks — with a proposal that both nations’ labs police themselves on AI cyberattacks. The first real substance before the summit, and what it reveals.
Beijing’s tech minister flew to a G20 meeting on US soil to call for AI “cooperation, not rivalry” — three weeks before the summit. The message is aimed at the watching world. And the gap between the words and China’s own hardening is the real story.