China’s AI Safety Catch-Up Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in Washington last week, with AI once again on the agenda. The text states that current debates in the West about China's approach to governing the technology ignore changes under way post-DeepSeek and Mythos. It adds that concrete outcomes of the meeting are hard to discern, but that Xi Jinping will see the treatment he received from Trump as a sign that China is now a peer of the United States.
Why it matters: The item speaks to AI governance, suggesting that Western assessments of Beijing's regulatory direction may lag the changes under way since DeepSeek and Mythos.