{"id":575372,"date":"2026-07-30T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:46:36","slug":"meta-ceo-zuckerberg-warns-us-shouldnt-ban-chinese-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575372\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Zuckerberg warns US shouldn\u2019t ban Chinese AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5vwtqa001w27qa7v65et7m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The US government should \u200bnot block Chinese artificial intelligence in an attempt to gain the upper hand in the race to develop the groundbreaking technology, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told the Financial Times.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5vzikj0003356rix572t9c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Zuckerberg warned that a US ban on Chinese \u200bAI models would not be \u201can effective solution\u201d and suggested that US companies should instead \u201csystematically\u201d identify bottlenecks and roadblocks in order to better compete with Chinese AI firms.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5vzikj0004356ruytn6rwl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            His comments in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/af4fa147-7fdd-42eb-8eb2-3f624a89a4e4?accessToken=zwAAAZ-tZJRHkdOvT6FHf91C69OOsj9iSomk5A.MEQCIE4NqAWSKElccbVPXfTyhEz-3i8y-KQmFsivodGrAIMxAiBg1J_aCIAOdr8mpT4KwWktUFBtKUAi-qlYJmu9wOMf7w&amp;sharetype=gift&amp;token=f78fb9f8-d2e6-4180-98b5-415c3dab1fcf&amp;syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an interview with the FT published Wednesday<\/a> come as an intense debate rages in Washington over how the US should regulate the fast-developing technology and respond to increasingly sophisticated Chinese competition.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5vzikj0005356r9266rjz9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Some senior Trump administration officials have claimed there is evidence that China\u2019s Moonshot AI covertly used US rivals to train its latest model Kimi K3. Moonshot has denied the allegations.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5wfvc30002356radd7gbwr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2026\/07\/23\/tech\/china-ai-moonshot-kimi-explainer-intl-hnk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warned last week<\/a> that \u201csanctions\u201d could be considered if Chinese labs \u201ccross the line into IP theft.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5vzikj0006356r70mgzaa2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It comes after the US government <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2026\/07\/29\/tech\/us-china-robot-ban-intl-hnk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced on Tuesday<\/a> it would ban new humanoid and quadruped robot imports from foreign manufacturers, warning that they pose \u201cunacceptable risks\u201d to US national security.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5wriuz0004356rez1q95cw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The ban also includes power converters used to connect renewable energy infrastructure and batteries to the power grid.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5vzikj0007356r26fgnefp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The new US restrictions, which exclude models already in use, are the latest attempt by Washington to bolster and safeguard its domestic industries and supply chain, amid an intensifying rivalry with China to dominate advanced technology and artificial intelligence.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms5w553d000j356rfd33hofu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s John Liu contributed reporting.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US government should \u200bnot block Chinese artificial intelligence in an attempt to gain the upper hand in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-575372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}