Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, swooped in to sign a deal with the Pentagon right after Anthropic was blacklisted. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images American AI companies love to say that the US must win the AI arms race, or China will.  Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all invoked the threat of a Chinese victory to justify speeding ahead on AI development, seemingly no matter what. The argument is simple: Whoever pulls ahead in building the most powerful AI could be the global superpower for a long, long time. China’s authoritarian government suppresses dissent, sur...

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