Posted on 08/30/2026 4:21:08 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Top American AI companies are feeding Beijing’s beast and the US military at the same time, a longtime China hawk is warning.
Four major providers of data for AI models — which help collate, label and package the vast troves of info for Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and the Pentagon — are also quietly working for China’s AI labs on the side, according to a new report.
“America is in an AI race with the Chinese Communist Party,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told The Post.
“We cannot spend billions trying to protect our technological advantage while American companies package up our best human expertise and sell it to companies tied to the Chinese military.”
None of the companies responded to The Post’s requests for comment.
China’s top six AI labs have dished out roughly $500 million a year on American data companies, according to a Forbes report.
Four US-based AI data companies reported to have done business with Chinese AI labs are: SurgeAI, Mercor, AfterQuery, and Turing.
McCaul, the former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the companies must stop working for China if they want government contracts.
“If you want to do business with the US government, you should not also be helping a Pentagon-designated Chinese military company build better AI,” he said.
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The penalties for conspiring with an enemy state, even if it’s just ‘business’ should include confiscation of 3/4 of ones total wealth, and a lifetime ban from either working for the government or lobbying the government for someone else. That’s being lenient.
GOP? Takes one to know one
Probably a great deal of cash in manila envelopes on the front seats of luxury cars delivered to US politicians from Chinese agent.
Persuasive.
Shall we apply that to the free traitors who supported sending our manufacturing, technology, tax base, and money to China?
Rhetorical question.
I don’t trust McCaul. He apparently plays on whichever team he needs to.
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