The White House has accused China of undertaking industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property and warned that it would crack down on a practice that exploits US innovation. “The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in a memo seen by the FT. The accusation marks the latest escalation in tensions around Chinese groups allegedly raiding advanced American AI research amid an arms race to lead in the technology. It comes just weeks before President Donald Trump will meet President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Full report : White House warns of ‘industrial-scale’ efforts in China to rip off U.S. AI tech.