Published March 27, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Wired
Mar 29, 2026, 6:00 AM
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed.
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