China's AI push is about spreading economic gains, not enriching tech giants, a finance CEO says

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Workers at the AIpai video generation platform at their office in Beijing on October 15, 2025
A new Brookings study warns that AI could raise wages now — only to crush them later as machines take over.

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Eric Schmidt said he worries that most governments will use Chinese AI models

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Eric Schmidt
Google's ex-CEO is worried most countries will adopt Chinese AI models.

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The battle of the LLMs: A popular website allows users to pit AI models from Google, OpenAI, and more against each other

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LMArena cofounders Wei-Lin Chiang and Anastasios Angelopoulos
LMArena cofounders Wei-Lin Chiang and Anastasios Angelopoulos

LMArena

OpenAI finally went open — sort of. Here's why China should take note.

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Sam Altman
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-oss, a family of language models with "open weights."

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NetBox Labs raised $35 million amid an AI-driven infrastructure boom. See the pitch deck it used to land its Series B funding.

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Kris Beevers

NetBox Labs

Meta's chief AI scientist says all countries should contribute data to a shared open-source AI model

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Yann LeCun speaking onstage.
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, talks about AI regulation.

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Everybody seems to love Zuck right now

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Mark Zuckerberg smiling.
Mark Zuckerberg said it's "ironic" that OpenAI builds closed-source AI models.

Chris Unger

Sam Altman isn't buying Elon Musk's explanation for his OpenAI lawsuit

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Photo collage of Sam Altman on the left, OpenAI's logo on a phone in the middle and Elon Musk on the right
Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

Anadolu

Meta and IBM launch alliance advocating 'open science' approach to AI, putting them at odds with rivals like Google and OpenAI

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Watsonx AI IBM generative AI platform displayed on a smartphone with Meta AI.
IBM and Meta have joined forces to promote an "open science" approach to artificial intelligence development.

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It's never been this easy to build a $1 billion AI company

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Kai-Fu Lee
Computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee turned his AI startup into a $1 billion company in less than eight months.

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