The U.S. wants to contain China's AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it

US policymakers are tightening AI export controls against China while Silicon Valley simultaneously incorporates Chinese open-weight models into its own flagship systems. Distillation and synthetic data generation are now bidirectional practices across all frontier labs, complicating efforts to establish clean technological or regulatory boundaries.

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