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Daily Report: An Industry's Center of Influence Shifts
Sometimes a shift in power happens so subtly that you don't even notice it is occurring. Take the increasingly important field of artificial intelligence. For all the talk of autonomous vehicles and smart home appliances in Silicon Valley, some of the most innovative work in artificial intelligence is being done far away, in China. Beijing is supporting A.I. research with vast sums of money and is helping to move those innovations into China's private sector, Paul Mozur and John Markoff write. And China is spending more just as the United States appears to be ready to pull back on such investing.