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AI Sovereignty

Does China Steal American Tech Jobs?

13 April 2026 by Jaime Xiao

It is not outsourcing. How open weight Chinese AI is silently rewriting the US job market. There is a popular narrative that the recent wave of tech layoffs in the US is simply a cycle of overhiring. However, looking closely at the data from API aggregators like OpenRouter tells a much more structural story. I … Read more

Categories Insights, Opinion Tags AI, AI Sovereignty, LLM 1 Comment

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