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The Trump administration released a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI exports to allies, in a bid to maintain the American edge over China in the critical technology.

The Nvidia chief’s praise for Chinese companies suggests a recognition of their growing influence in the global AI ecosystem. Open-source approaches to AI development allow for wider access to foundational models and accelerate innovation by enabling developers worldwide to build upon existing frameworks.

More than half of US and EU respondents, however, say they will only use models hosted on non-Chinese infrastructure.

China is working to merge man and machine through brain-computer interface technology, as part of the country's ongoing efforts to compete in the AI race.

The administration’s long-awaited AI Action Plan gives Silicon Valley the green light.

Yet while the U.S. appears to focus on powerful yet proprietary large language models, enterprise AI, and semiconductors, China is taking a vastly different approach to cultivating its AI industry.

The performance of Kimi K2, launched on 11 July by Beijing-based company Moonshot AI, matches or surpasses that of Western rivals, as well as some DeepSeek models, across various benchmarks, according to the firm. In particular, it seems to excel at coding and scoring high in tests such as LiveCodeBench.

We previously wrote about a Chinese court decision that protected the copyright of AI-generated images in the ‘half heart’ case. However, in a