The White House has accused China-based actors of conducting large-scale theft of US artificial intelligence intellectual property, marking an spike in US–China technology tensions ahead of a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping.
“The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in a memo shared on social media on Thursday and first reported by the Financial Times.
The administration is expected to share intelligence with American AI firms and consider measures to hold those responsible accountable. Companies including OpenAI and Anthropic have raised concerns over competitive and security risks.
China rejected the claims, with embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu describing them as “pure slander”.
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