Trump and Xi meet as AI rivalry reshapes global power dynamics

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President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping are meeting Thursday with artificial intelligence supremacy as a central agenda item, as both nations compete to lead a technology that could reshape global power dynamics. The US leads in frontier AI models, with American firms like Anthropic and Google holding top benchmarks, while China counters with open-weight models, cheaper energy access, and dominance in robotics manufacturing despite US chip export restrictions. The two governments differ on safety, with Washington favoring minimal regulation and Beijing emphasizing human control, though both have discussed establishing a notification mechanism for serious AI incidents during the summit.


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