Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey (Zeyi Yang/New York Times)

Zeyi Yang / New York Times: Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey — China's booming artificial intelligence sector has given local researchers good reason to remain in the country …

Memo: White House says it has info indicating 'foreign entities, principally based in China' are engaged in 'industrial scale distillation' of American AI tech (Financial Times)
Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life (Damien Cave/New York Times)
A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
Q&A with Jensen Huang on AI creating more jobs than it destroys, pushing back against AI doomerism, Chinese open models, the Hugging Face acquisition, and more (Ezra Klein/New York Times)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-10-06

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