Trump vs. China: Election fraud claims and a AI race, Beijing's battle to rule the world

The release of the Chinese AI model Kimi 3 is forcing Washington and Silicon Valley to reckon with another sign of intense competition with Beijing, renewing questions over how to curb the country’s technology capabilities.

Kimi 3, released late last week by the China-based firm Moonshot AI, quickly sent shockwaves through industry and policy circles, threatening the leads in coding ability of U.S. labs and models like Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol.