US and China set AI guardrails at Trump-Xi summit

Artificial intelligence has become the top agenda item for the upcoming Trump-Xi Jinping summit, marking a major shift from traditional economic talks as the two superpowers seek to manage tech-driven security risks. Preparatory talks in New York established a US-China AI Dialogue mechanism and an information-sharing network to warn against cyberattacks and rogue AI agents. Contentious areas include military AI integration, semiconductor export controls, and alleged model replication by Chinese developers. While the US leads in frontier AI models, performance gaps have narrowed to 2.7%, and China projects faster energy growth for data centers. The summit aims to set guardrails, but the broader race for global digital dominance continues.