Chinese authorities are cautioning prominent artificial intelligence entrepreneurs against traveling to the United States due to fears of leakage of proprietary information, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Executives are being alerted that they could be detained and potentially leveraged as bargaining chips in U.S.-China negotiations, also noted by the Wall Street Journal.
A Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, asserts that it has introduced models that compete with those developed by leading U.S. entities like OpenAI and Google, highlighting the intense global AI competition between the two countries.
In a meeting addressing cybersecurity and AI, President Xi Jinping stressed the importance of giving top priority to national political security, as conveyed by China's state broadcaster.