Anna Tong covers AI for the Forbes website and magazine. She was previously a reporter at Reuters and San Francisco Standard. Prior to reporting, Anna worked at Google and was a product manager at tech startups like Ripple. Anna graduated from Harvard University.
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The same Silicon Valley startups supplying OpenAI, Anthropic and the U.S. government are also selling AI training datasets to Chinese labs building rival models.
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Thrive Holdings To Bet $1 Billion On AI-Powered Accounting Roll-Up
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