US Threatens Sanctions on China Over Alleged AI Model Theft

The White House is weighing a crackdown on China’s alleged “IP theft” of artificial intelligence models in the United States, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with Fox Business Tuesday (July 21). The President Donald Trump administration will examine whether Chinese AI models have been distilled from their U.S. “If we see, especially that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them because of this th