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Digitimes September 15, 2026 By DIGITIMES positive

Trump calls AI slowdown a conspiracy that helps China, closing off Washington support

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Calls from leading US AI developers to slow frontier model development are colliding with the rivalry they were partly meant to manage. Within days of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal, US President Donald Trump cast the push as a conspiracy that benefits China, Chinese state media called it a US containment strategy, and European governments said halting AI was not an option, leaving little common ground for the coordinated slowdown its backers say is needed.
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