Silicon Valley Divided Over Chinese Tech Approach

Silicon Valley is fracturing over China policy: large AI labs (NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta) oppose open-source AI restrictions fearing innovation loss, while closed-model leaders (OpenAI, Anthropic) demand stronger controls; simultaneously, Apple is lobbying to import Chinese memory chips whilst Micron warns this threatens US semiconductor capacity.

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