The United States threatens sanctions against Chinese artificial intelligence models for intellectual property theft | TechCrunch0

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• July 22, 2026

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would examine China’s open source models for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is found. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models threatening the big language models in the United States,” Bessent said