As AI grows more powerful, a U.S.-China feud threatens safety efforts

U.S. sanctions threats against Chinese AI labs over alleged IP theft and chip access violations are fracturing planned bilateral AI safety dialogue, whilst both countries' frontier models gain recursive self-improvement capabilities that make cooperation on safety standards more urgent. The dispute risks escalating into tit-for-tat retaliation that could collapse September talks between Trump and Xi.

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