WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is delivering a warning Washington should take seriously: if the United States allows political panic, regulatory paralysis and fear of data centers to slow American artificial intelligence development, China will be more than happy to take the lead. The Pennsylvania senator pushed back Saturday against what he described as exaggerated fears surrounding artificial intelligence and the massive data centers required to power it. Fetterman declared...

Tesla is recalling nearly 3 million electric vehicles in China over concerns that occupants may have difficulty locating or operating emergency mechanical door releases after a serious crash, putting fresh scrutiny on one of the design features most closely associated with modern electric vehicles. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said Tesla filed recall plans covering **2,975,910 vehicles**, including China-made and imported Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X vehicles....

America’s artificial-intelligence boom is running into an increasingly fierce domestic battle over the enormous data centers needed to power it — and new evidence shows that China-linked influence operators have attempted to exploit that dispute as the technological rivalry between Washington and Beijing intensifies. OpenAI disclosed in June that it banned a cluster of accounts likely originating in China after they used ChatGPT to generate social-media content attacking U.S. data-center...