Eric Schmidt scores US vs. China: who’s winning the AI race?

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, gives a raw assessment of the US-China AI race, revealing the US lead has contracted from two years to just six months. He argues that expelling talented Chinese PhD students is a self-inflicted wound, weighs the open-source debate dividing Silicon Valley, and offers one pathway to avoid a zero-sum conflict, even as he admits the political odds are steep.