Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers
Summary
As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a US-China treaty to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. In letters shared exclusively with The Verge, Khanna asked a US intelligence agency and Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI whether they would be prepared for an incident like OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face this summer.
Bubble analysis
This story is about US-China AI safety diplomacy and a call for regulation; it contains no investment figures, valuations, or capex data, so it offers almost no direct evidence on whether AI is in an investment bubble. At most it shows rising policy attention to AI risk, which could indirectly shape future regulation, but the link to the investment cycle is several steps removed.
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