China is conducting industrial-scale espionage to steal US AI technology, White House says

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President Donald Trump’s science and technology adviser on Thursday released a memorandum that says the government has found China is conducting industrial-scale campaigns to steal U.S. artificial intelligence technology. 

Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios sent a letter to the president explaining that foreign entities, primarily in China, are cracking into the United States’s networks to systematically extract frontier AI models. 

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