US and China are failing the same AI race, only differently
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In late September, construction crews in Ulanqab, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, filed through face-scanning gates to raise another block of AI data centers above fields of sunflowers. Six weeks later, American voters did the opposite. Restrictions on data centers passed in 44 of 45 local referendums where counting was complete. The contrast…
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