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Sept. 13, 2025 – Two of China’s most valuable technology companies, Alibaba Group and Baidu Inc., have leapfrogged the West to train some of the world’s most powerful computers while developing their own chips to do so—a significant step toward technological independence in an intensifying arms race for tech supremacy....
