
China's WAICO and America's Pax Silica Split AI World
Beijing's new World AI Cooperation Organization signed up 29 nations in Shanghai, weeks after Washington's rival Pax Silica bloc grew to roughly two dozen. Kazakhstan joined both.
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Beijing's new World AI Cooperation Organization signed up 29 nations in Shanghai, weeks after Washington's rival Pax Silica bloc grew to roughly two dozen. Kazakhstan joined both.

Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler confirms H200 AI chip shipments to China have begun, but calls the volume 'trivial' as lawmakers spar over export-control gaps.

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A bipartisan Congressional bill would freeze state AI laws for three years and require frontier developers to publish catastrophic risk plans, submit to federal audits, and face $1M daily fines.

Trump signed a narrowed AI executive order giving the government 30 days of voluntary pre-release access to frontier models, after industry lobbying gutted the original 90-day mandatory proposal.

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