Tension between national-security hawks and the biggest American technology companies over China policy has burst out into the open. The trigger: a Biden administration plan to limit the global sale of advanced artificial-intelligence chips.

By 2020, the plan called for “iconic advances” in AI to demonstrate its progress. Then in late 2022, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise—and caught China flat-footed. At the time, leading Chinese technology companies were still reeling from an 18-month government crackdown that shaved around $1 trillion off China's tech sector.

TOKYO -- China is rapidly catching up with the U.S. in research on artificial intelligence, an analysis of papers accepted by major AI conferences suggests, as the two countries establish themselves as rival camps in the field.

Tariffs can have the unintended consequences of raising consumer prices and impacting the stock market. Two of the largest contributors to the market's gains in recent years were the consumer tech giant Apple ( AAPL 0.20%) and the artificial intelligence chip king Nvidia ( NVDA -0.02%). Which will be impacted the most by Trump's looming tariffs?

Despite U.S. efforts, the domestic China AI industry is rapidly innovating — and massively undercutting U.S. AI model prices.

Social media users worldwide have been fooled by an AI-generated image that appears to show a massive fire engulfing a warehouse for Chinese e-commerce giant Temu. The social media user who created the image told AFP it was intended as a joke,

Sweeping Western sanctions against Russia have made AI chips a challenge to obtain.

There is evidence, however, that China still faces significant obstacles that may slow its implementation of military AI. These challenges include the PLA’s lack of militarily relevant training data,

Discover how China’s AI models are challenging OpenAI and Google in the race for innovation. Local AI deployment offering privacy and

A technology industry group on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden's administration to refrain from issuing a last-minute rule that would control global access to AI chips, warning the restrictions would jeopardize U.

From agentic systems to humanoids, AI is everywhere. But ethical concerns remain over its growing role in our lives.