President Trump said artificial intelligence will be a topic of discussion when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but indicated both leaders wanted to avoid new restrictions on AI development. Trump rejected international AI controls and has proposed renaming AI to 'super intelligence.'
Chinese researchers and state media are sharply criticizing proposals by US tech leaders for a voluntary slowdown in artificial intelligence development, questioning whether the calls represent a genuine concern or a strategic ploy to maintain American technological leadership.
China's Foreign Ministry and state media rejected warnings from U.S. AI executives about development risks, calling them 'fearmongering' and accusing the U.S. of using safety concerns as a 'Cold War playbook' to maintain technological advantage.
President Donald Trump dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence risks from tech industry leaders who have called for slowing AI development, saying concerns are exaggerated by "negative forces" and emphasizing the need to maintain U.S. advantage over China. Trump acknowledged some regulation may be needed but provided no specifics.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress won't lead on AI regulation and rejected calls for a development moratorium, arguing AI companies should take responsibility for safety while warning against ceding ground to China.
House Speaker Mike Johnson called for AI industry leaders to meet with Congress and take personal responsibility for safety protocols, but resisted calls for emergency legislation or a moratorium on AI development. Johnson warned against rushing regulation that could cede technological ground to China, urging a cautious approach amid growing warnings from tech leaders about existential risks.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay calling on AI companies to deliberately slow frontier model development, warning that unchecked growth could threaten the internet within 6-12 months. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly supported the proposal.
The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI have publicly called for slowing down AI development amid safety concerns, with OpenAI delaying its IPO. Former Trump AI czar David Sacks responded by telling the companies they can slow down voluntarily but should not seek antitrust waivers or regulatory approval in return, while Russia rejected the slowdown proposal.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees the company is open to slowing development of cutting-edge AI systems and has asked members of Congress whether coordinating an industry-wide slowdown would be legal under antitrust law. The discussions follow warnings from researchers about existential AI risks.
Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher at Anthropic, publicly resigned warning that AI companies including Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving superintelligence irresponsibly. He claimed AI executives privately fear catastrophic outcomes while continuing development.
The European Union has awarded French state-owned company Bull a €387.8 million ($449.4 million) contract to build LUMI-AI, a new AI-focused supercomputer to be located in Kajaani, northern Finland. This is Bull's largest-ever order as Europe seeks to expand computing capacity and close the gap with the United States and China.
China's Zhipu AI confirmed that its viral Ox Alpha model, now revealed as GLM-5.3-Flash, is a 320B-parameter mixture-of-experts AI system that ran entirely on 100,000 domestically produced Chinese chips during launch. The geopolitically significant claim about Chinese chip capabilities remains unverified by independent sources.
Nvidia is bolstering hardware optimization for Chinese open-source AI models including DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen, seeking to maintain its position in the global AI ecosystem despite growing concerns from US lawmakers about supporting Chinese technology development.
The US is pressuring international partners to align with its AI framework over China's, as a congressional commission warns that China's strategic use of data as a national asset may give it an edge in AI development despite chip export controls.
Google's Gemini AI assistant reached 1 billion users in record time, matching ChatGPT's milestone, as the company reshuffles its AI leadership with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis transitioning to chief scientist and chairman roles. The changes come amid pressure from co-founder Sergey Brin and others to catch up with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Chinese AI startup Manus will return to operating independently after Beijing blocked Meta Platforms' $2 billion acquisition of the company, forcing the tech giant to unwind the landmark deal. The blocked takeover highlights regulatory risks facing Chinese entrepreneurs expanding globally.
Meta unveiled Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight AI model, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower barriers to open-weight technology to help American firms compete with increasingly capable Chinese AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which now rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in code generation and bug detection.
Meta announced the release of Muse Glimmer, a new open-source AI model designed to run on laptops, and plans to release an open-weight version of its most advanced Muse Spark 1.2 model. Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay advocating for American open-source AI development as a counter to Chinese rivals.
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness committed $500 million to Source Foundry, a startup developing equipment to ease bottlenecks in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, just days after the fund suffered a 67% loss.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has launched a public attack on major AI model developers, accusing them of attempting to make businesses dependent on their platforms and warning about broader strategic implications for U.S. competitiveness against China in the AI race.
TikTok parent company ByteDance is training a massive AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, approximately three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3, in an effort to compete with Anthropic's advanced Mythos system. The development intensifies the global competition in large-scale artificial intelligence.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told CNBC that Chinese developers now account for 41% of AI model downloads on the platform, the largest share globally, as China gains ground in open-source AI development. The announcement comes amid a broader debate about U.S.-China AI competition and prompted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to call for reduced U.S. regulatory barriers on open-source AI.
Google's Gemini AI assistant reached 1 billion monthly active users, becoming the company's fastest-growing consumer product ever, as Alphabet consolidates AI leadership in California and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis transitions to chief scientist amid intensifying competition with OpenAI and Anthropic.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue stated that China is winning the artificial intelligence race with open-weight models and could catch up to US model makers as soon as this year, following the recent OpenAI security breach affecting his platform.
China's state broadcaster aired footage of the People's Liberation Army Air Force's intelligent strike-planning system, which uses artificial intelligence to coordinate simultaneous strikes by more than 100 tactical units with split-second precision after passing final live-fire tests.
The White House is excluding open-weight AI models from its voluntary framework to test advanced AI capabilities, even as Chinese developers dominate this category and industry leaders debate whether open models from China pose security risks or benefits. The policy shift comes amid growing concerns that China is winning the AI race through open-source releases.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is planning to build a massive gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence data center in Inner Mongolia, marking a significant expansion in computing infrastructure for the company that has demonstrated competitive capabilities against leading Silicon Valley AI models.
Italy and the United States are set to sign a cooperation agreement on the Pax Silica initiative focused on artificial intelligence supply chains on Friday, according to Italy's foreign ministry. The agreement comes after a reported dispute with Trump.
Multiple leaked reports indicate both Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and OpenAI's GPT-6 are targeting August 2026 releases, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly briefing the Trump administration on GPT-6's advanced capabilities including autonomous research and penetration testing.
A preliminary joint evaluation by UK AISI and U.S. CAISI found that Kimi K3 performed significantly below the most recent frontier cyber-capable models on preliminary cyber evaluations and achieved arbitrary code execution on 0 of 41 ExploitBench samples.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly praised Chinese open-source AI models as 'excellent' and 'world class,' urging Washington not to ban them, even as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned of scrutinizing Chinese models for stolen intellectual property. The comments come amid growing concern in Washington over low-cost Chinese AI models like Kimi that increasingly compete with American offerings.
The Trump administration outlined plans to redirect billions in federal research funding away from universities and toward individual scientists and artificial intelligence. Separately, it announced a $5 billion “AI for science” initiative involving 15 federal agencies. The overhaul aims to accelerate technological breakthroughs and strengthen U.S. competitiveness against China.
On July 10, 2026, BIS reclassified the UAE into Country Group A:5, granting license-free access to advanced AI chips, servers, military equipment, and commercial satellites. The change reflects the UAE's status as a U.S. Major Defense Partner.
A Chinese supercomputer has seized the title of world's most powerful, ending nearly a decade of US dominance. The achievement underscores Beijing's drive to build advanced computing power with homegrown chips amid US export restrictions.
AI pioneer and AMI Labs founder Yann LeCun told CNBC that Elon Musk's xAI is a 'failure' unable to compete at the AI frontier, while warning that AI labs face a 'big bubble explosion' as investor subsidies cannot continue indefinitely.
CEOs from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leading AI companies joined G7 leaders in France on June 17, 2026, to discuss AI governance and coordination, as tensions escalated over a U.S. government order forcing Anthropic to suspend access to its latest AI models citing national security concerns.
The Department of Justice filed to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit against xAI's use of unpermitted natural gas turbines in Mississippi, arguing the company's operations are crucial to national security and military operations. The DOJ claims xAI's Grok chatbot plays an essential role in defense capabilities.
China has begun limiting international travel for top artificial intelligence talent working at private companies including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and DeepSeek, marking an escalation in Beijing's efforts to protect strategic technology and compete with the US in AI development.
President Donald Trump called off plans to sign a new artificial intelligence executive order just hours before a scheduled White House ceremony, expressing concerns that it could weaken the U.S. competitive position against China. Former Trump AI czar David Sacks had raised concerns that voluntary reviews in the draft order could become mandatory.
The European Union has made progress on reshaping AI regulation that European tech companies including Siemens argued was putting them behind US and China rivals. The changes specifically target industrial AI applications.
Meta is building a highly personalized AI assistant capable of carrying out everyday tasks autonomously for its user base, according to Financial Times reporting. The project, internally codenamed 'Hatch,' represents Meta's effort to compete with similar initiatives from Anthropic and OpenAI.
China's National Security Commission, led by President Xi Jinping, branded Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus as 'conspiratorial' and has barred the company's founders from leaving China, marking a significant escalation in US-China tech tensions.
