Star founders, Beijing officials and deep-pocketed financiers converge on Shanghai by the thousands this weekend to attend China’s most important AI summit. At the top of the agenda: how to propel Beijing’s ambitions to leapfrog the US in artificial intelligence — and profit off that drive.

President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power ...

“Having failed to get his group of sycophants to approve an AI moratorium in his ‘Big Beautiful Betrayal,’ Trump now tries to force it on states,” Newsom spokesperson Tara Gallegos said in a statemen...