Opinion | Where US jealously guards tech, China offers a collaborative ecosystem

Opinion | Where US jealously guards tech, China offers a collaborative ecosystem

Windsurf was a rising artificial intelligence (AI) start-up – until it wasn’t. Days after OpenAI’s US$3 billion acquisition deal collapsed, Windsurf’s founders and top researchers joined Google DeepMind under a non-exclusive licensing agreement. What remained was sold to another company. Windsurf, as an independent innovator, ceased to exist. This is how many AI start-ups today…

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Amazon Web Services to close Shanghai AI lab amid US-China tech tensions

Amazon Web Services to close Shanghai AI lab amid US-China tech tensions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined its US peers Microsoft and IBM in downsizing artificial intelligence research activities in mainland China amid ongoing geopolitical tensions. The company has decided to close its seven-year-old AI Shanghai Lablet due to “China-US strategic realignment”, according to Wang Minjie, the facility’s chief applied scientist, in an announcement posted on…

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos meets Donald Trump as it is 'advantage Blue Origin' after Elon Musk's White House exit

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos meets Donald Trump as it is ‘advantage Blue Origin’ after Elon Musk’s White House exit

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos met with President Donald at the White House last week, CNBC has reported. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the report said that the meeting lasted for over an hour. While the exact timing and agenda of the meeting remain unclear, flight tracking data by Jack Sweeney shows a Gulfstream G700…

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