The Trump administration has banned imports of new advanced robots from China. VCG/VCG via Getty Images The Trump administration has announced a ban on the entry of new Chinese humanoid robots into the United States. Officials say the robots pose “unacceptable security risks” to national security. Some policy experts have expressed full approval of the
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a ban on imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots to the United States over “unacceptable risks” to US national security. The measure applies to advanced robots, including humanoid and four-legged machines. Many of them are manufactured in China, which competes with the United States in the development of robotics
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded Monday afternoon to murmurs in the industry that his company somehow supports the U.S. government’s efforts to ban Chinese open-weight models, or possibly open-weight models in general. “Anyone who has read my previous writings should know that I do not consider such bans to be a useful measure,
The launch of the latest AI model from a Chinese company, Moonshot AI’s Kimi, has reignited debates about American competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. While there has been a lot of conversation on social media, it appears the debate is also taking place behind the scenes in Washington, DC, where OpenAI and Anthropic have
A great debate A proliferation of Chinese-made AI tools is brewing in Silicon Valley, particularly “open-weight” AI systems that, by some measures, can rival or even surpass some of the best American models. My WIRED colleague Hugo Lowell has written about the Trump administration’s internal debate over how to handle these Chinese models. Among the
At the beginning of this year, I picked up a rather unfortunate habit: vaping. More specifically, I started smoking flavored vaporizers made in the so-called “Vape Valley” of China and sold throughout the United States. Flavored nicotine vaporizers are largely illegal in the United States, yet convenience stores and tobacconists across the country have generated
