Artificial intelligence (AI) should not be dominated by a single country, Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) said yesterday at a major technology conference in Shanghai, urging international cooperation on its development.Chinese AI models are catching up to the most powerful US offerings and attrac

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai signals the technology’s importance to Beijing as a powerful diplomatic tool.

American-led restrictions have blocked China from accessing some of the world's most advanced technologies, spurring China's efforts to build its own know-how and intensifying the…