China favors chips, AI executives over internet tycoons at top political meeting

Seats once reserved for executives of internet companies are redistributed as Beijing braces for technological challenges from Washington.

China favors chips, AI executives over internet tycoons at top political meeting

Several prominent Chinese internet executives were not able to attend the top Chinese political meetings in Beijing this week. As China's leader Xi Jinping shifts his priorities amid growing technology competition with the U.S., this will be replaced by experts in artificial intelligence or semiconductors.