'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier Share'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier on social media China has warned against "fear-mongering" after the CEO of a top artificial intelligence (AI) company in the United States sounded the alarm against AI advancement and called for restrictions on the sale of AI chips to China. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the development of the most powerful AI systems to be slowed down, warning that they could soon pose potentially catastrophic risks to humanity itself. The dispute comes as Washington and Beijing compete over increasingly capable AI models, with US President Donald Trump declaring, "Whoever wins AI wins." So, what has got AI giants worried, why is China being seen as a threat? Why are AI tech giants raising the alarm?

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei compared the AI race with China to the Cold War, suggesting arms limitation talks to slow AI development and address AI safety concerns.

The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks transformed global politics as Western democracies abandoned many liberal principles and older conflicts over empire, decolonization, immigration and culture resurfaced in the far-right movements.

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OpenAI unveiled its first custom inference chip, built with Broadcom and called 'Jalapeño,' signaling the U.S.-China AI competition has shifted to controlling critical infrastructure.

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Just don't expect to fly any of these Cold War relics. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Over a dozen vintage planes are currently scattered across an aircraft boneyard in northern Wyoming. If you can travel about 85 miles east of Yellowstone National Park to Big Horn County, relics such as a Lockheed P-2 Neptune could be yours for as low as $25--just don't expect to fly away in any of your new purchases. But they're county assets, and the county is selling them," Big Horn County Airport manager Paul Thur told Wyoming's earlier this month.

No, it was not a "Sputnik moment". The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing its supremacy in AI technology. Yet, for all the disruption, the Sputnik analogy reveals less about DeepSeek than about American neuroses. The original Sputnik moment came on 4 October 1957 when the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching Sputnik 1, the first time humanity had sent a satellite into orbit. It was, to anachronistically borrow a phrase from a later and even more momentous landmark, "one giant leap for mankind", in Neil Armstrong's historic words as he took a "small step" on to the surface of the moon.

An illustration of a large envelope fills the screen--I've received a new e-mail, my first in weeks. I click on the middle of the envelope and a note opens in size thirty-six font. It's a top-secret assignment for me, a renegade ex-C.I.A. agent who can kick higher than anyone else in the agency. "Looks like this old dog is heading back to the pound," I growl, and close the e-mail by turning off my entire computer. I pull up a digitized photo on the screen.