New Delhi, July 28 -- SAN FRANCISCO - For two years, Dario Amodei watched the AI industry sign letters, build coalitions, and consolidate positions he had stayed conspicuously quiet on. On Sunday, he stepped in front of the controversy rather than around it.

China's Communist Party acquiring AI systems powerful enough to shift military balances and enable domestic repression at unprecedented scale.

The context matters. Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Hugging Face all signed an open letter urging policymakers against imposing broad restrictions on open-weight AI models - AI systems whose underlying parameters are publicly released, allowing anyone to run or modify them without oversight from the original developer. Anthropic was co...