AI race gives Washington another reason to be tough on TikTok

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The writer is the author of ‘Chip War’

At the start of this year, President Donald Trump declared that “enhancing America’s global AI dominance” was a central goal of his presidency. His dealmaking around TikTok’s future in the US market will be an early test of what “AI dominance” means in practice. That is because ByteDance — TikTok’s parent…