Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US’s lead in the AI race

Source: guardianTech July 21, 2026 · 05:08
Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into questionHello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI.New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacentersTrump rails against New York’s statewide datacenter moratoriumAlbanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?IBM loses quarter of its value a…

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