A Chinese billionaire reckons with the limits of building AI across borders

Financial Times5 October 2026, 10:00 UTCPeople's Republic of China

One-time gaming tycoon Chen Tianqiao bet billions on a second act in agentic research but ran headlong into US-China trade tensions

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