{"id":241735,"date":"2026-07-09T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/congress-eyes-growing-use-of-chinese-ai-models-by-us-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:30:09","slug":"congress-eyes-growing-use-of-chinese-ai-models-by-us-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/congress-eyes-growing-use-of-chinese-ai-models-by-us-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Eyes Growing Use of Chinese AI Models by US Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/congress-counter-growing-use-chinese-ai-models-united-states-firms\/\">Congress Eyes Growing Use of Chinese AI Models by US Firms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/congress-counter-growing-use-chinese-ai-models-united-states-firms\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/congress-counter-growing-use-chinese-ai-models-united-states-firms\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-09 13:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. companies are increasingly using cheaper Chinese AI models due to high pricing of U.S.-based token-based artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The adoption of Chinese models has sparked concerns among U.S. lawmakers and national security officials due to potential alignment with Chinese Communist Party narratives.<\/li>\n<li>The share of tokens from U.S. companies paid to Chinese AI models rose to 45% by mid-July, up from 11.5% at the beginning of the year.<\/li>\n<li>U.S. government officials worry that these Chinese models can advance Beijing\u2019s ideology and negatively impact cybersecurity.<\/li>\n<li>Congress is investigating the adoption of Chinese AI models and considering measures to limit their use in U.S. firms, alongside assessing U.S. strategies to offer competitive alternatives.<\/li>\n<li>Airbnb stated it predominantly uses U.S.-origin AI models but also uses a limited number of open-source Chinese models through secure U.S.-based service providers.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese government is also concerned about national security issues and has discussed possible restrictions on overseas access to its advanced AI models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress Eyes Growing Use of Chinese AI Models by US Firms https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/congress-counter-growing-use-chinese-ai-models-united-states-firms\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-09&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/US-Congress-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-241735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241737,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241735\/revisions\/241737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}