AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
Wired AI Will Knight, Zeyi Yang March 27, 2026

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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