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The AI Competition as a Football Game

At halftime: USA 29 - China 25

Kevin Xu
Jan 06, 2026
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This post originally appeared in Interconnected.

“The world of AI continues to get caught up in geopolitics and in the zero-sum nature of an AI ‘arms race’ between the US and China.”

If the US-China AI…

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