“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.
29 founding nations. A Shanghai secretariat. A path to shape UN AI policy. China’s WAICO alliance is now a functioning institution — and watchchina.ai forecast it a week before it launched.
For the first time, Xi Jinping will personally headline China’s flagship AI summit — launching a global alliance built to ensure no single country dominates AI. Everyone knows which country he means.
169 countries. One question. Who controls the world’s most powerful AI? The UN’s first global AI governance dialogue confronts the asymmetry watchchina.ai has tracked all summer — and China arrives with an opening.