{"id":24038,"date":"2026-07-21T12:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/headaches-for-silicon-valley-as-china-chips-away-at-the-uss-lead-in-the-ai-race\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:37:27","slug":"headaches-for-silicon-valley-as-china-chips-away-at-the-uss-lead-in-the-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/headaches-for-silicon-valley-as-china-chips-away-at-the-uss-lead-in-the-ai-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US\u2019s lead in the AI race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question<\/p>\n<p>Hello, I\u2019m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we\u2019re discussing how China is chipping away at the US\u2019s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley\u2019s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/14\/new-york-moratorium-ai-datacenters\">New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/15\/trump-new-york-datacenter-moratorium\">Trump rails against New York\u2019s statewide datacenter moratorium<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jul\/16\/albaneses-ai-blueprint-sparks-calls-for-datacentre-moratorium-until-new-regulations-in-place\">Albanese\u2019s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in place<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2026\/jul\/17\/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream\">\u2018Adversarial clothing\u2019: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/14\/ibm-shares-profit-drop-value\">IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant\u2019s shares plunge and profits falter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jul\/15\/teenagers-verdic-britain-social-media-curfew-ban-whats-the-point\">\u2018What\u2019s the point?\u2019 Teenagers give their verdict on Britain\u2019s social media curfew<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/17\/amazon-web-services-customers-trillion-dollar-bills-global-glitch\">Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jul\/16\/justin-sun-trump-family-crypto\">Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/20\/china-google-ai-race\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e8094a6a97533611adab0cc9c3b1dff72987ac20\/451_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e8b1c3c24208d10a562e05528a86a061\" title=\"Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US\u2019s lead in the AI race\" \/>Google\u2019s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question<br \/>\nHello, I\u2019m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. 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Today in tech, we\u2019re discussing how China is chipping away at the US\u2019s lead &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/headaches-for-silicon-valley-as-china-chips-away-at-the-uss-lead-in-the-ai-race\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Headaches for Silicon Valley as China chips away at the US\u2019s lead in the AI race<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}