OpenAI once pushed to keep AI chips from China — now it's staying quiet
peterwildeford · x · 2026-10-20
Politico reports that OpenAI, which once advocated restricting AI chip exports to China, has gone quiet on the issue. Safety researcher Peter Wildeford comments that both OpenAI and the US directly lose from AI chips flowing to China, calling it a key channel of Chinese competition with American AI. The shift highlights tension between OpenAI's commercial interests and its earlier security advocacy.
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