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Alexandra Alper

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Alexandra Alper

    Leading Democrat asks AI firms for data on any Chinese access to sensitive code (opens the original)

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    WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A Democratic lawmaker is warning that Beijing could steal AI model weights developed by OpenAI, Anthropic and other top US firms, erasing the US edge over China in the AI race and posing a risk to US national security. OpenAI and Anthropic have reported multiple instances of Chinese AI firms like Moonshot or DeepSeek "distilling" their AI models, or training their own tools from the output of leading Western models. But there are few known cases of any bad actor st

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Alexandra Alper and Courtney Rozen, Reuters

    Trump says working with Xi on AI would hurt US companies (opens the original)

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    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning said he does not want to work with Chinese President Xi Jinping on governing AI technology, adding that doing so would ​make it harder for U.S. companies to build better AI products than their Chinese counterparts. "We're leading now over China and everyone else, and I want to keep it that way," Trump said at an event in Washington on Tuesday morning. Trump also said that he discussed AI with Xi when he ‌visited the U.S. last week, adding th

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Alexandra Alper and Courtney Rozen

    Trump says working with Xi on AI would hurt US companies (opens the original)

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    WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning said he does not want to work with Chinese President Xi Jinping on governing AI technology, adding that doing so would make it harder for US companies to build better AI products than their Chinese counterparts. "We're leading now over China and everyone else, and I want to keep it that way," Trump said at an event in Washington on Tuesday morning. Trump also said that he discussed AI with Xi when he visited the US las

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Alexandra Alper

    Trump administration to lend $100 million to Africell, countering Huawei in Africa | CNBC Africa (opens the original)

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    WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The Trump administration will lend nearly $100 million to Africell, Africa’s only American-owned telecoms firm, as it seeks to counter the expansion of China’s Huawei in Africa, according to a person familiar with the matter and a draft press release reviewed by Reuters. The loan from the Export-Import Bank to Africell will “enable Africell to invest in the latest mobile network technology from American and allied suppliers,” according to the draft release, which

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Alexandra Alper

    Trump administration to lend $100 million to Africell, countering Huawei in Africa (opens the original)

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    WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The Trump administration will lend nearly $100 million to Africell, Africa's only American-owned telecoms firm, as it seeks to counter the expansion of China's Huawei in Africa, according to a person familiar with the matter and a draft press release reviewed by Reuters. The loan from the Export-Import Bank to Africell will "enable Africell to invest in the latest mobile network technology from American and allied suppliers," according to the draft release, whic

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