Trump fumes as China pilfers top US tech — and goes unpunished

China has a dirty little habit of swiping tech that doesn’t belong to it and passing it off as its own. Why should AI be any different? Latest accusations claim that China stole intellectual property from American AI companies to use in its own platforms, and the Trump administration is poised to take swift retaliatory action.

The whole hubbub started over the prevalence of open-source AI models originating from China. As the costs of major platforms, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok, continue to rise in the States, U.S. companies that have already integrated AI into their workforce, or that plan to add AI in the future, are looking for new ways to cut costs without sacrificing capabilities. One solution is to fall back on Chinese-made