With the launch of ChatGPT three years ago to the day, it looked like America had won the next major technology race before it had even started. But the landscape has shifted dramatically. China is overtaking the United States in open-source models, Europe is walking back its regulatory ambitions, and the internet is drowning in AI-generated rubbish.
Technology Editor Peter O’Brien takes stock of the geopolitical shifts, whether we’re in a bubble, and strange new problems the world is now facing.
