US threatens to sanction Chinese AI over “IP theft”
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What happened: On July 21, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will scrutinize Chinese open-source AI models for IP theft, stating:
"If we see [that] overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them."
Bessent also floated making US firms di...