U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent threatens sanctions against Chinese AI model makers

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that the White House is going to examine some of the highest profile “open-weight” models from China to see if their creators have stolen the intellectual property of America’s top artificial intelligence frontier labs.

If evidence suggests that’s the case, the U.S. could respond with sanctions against the […]

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