In case you haven't heard, the United States is in a life-and-death arms race. Only, it's not conventional weapons or even world-ending ICBMs we're rushing to build, and it's not a matter of life and death. The "arms race," of course, is the rush to build artificial intelligence, and the US's adversary — for reasons even the Pentagon's most fiendish war hawks struggle to articulate — is China. In an effort to delay China's flourishing tech sector, the US has gone to extreme lengths to keep American semiconductors, often called "chips," out of People's Republic. But while US officials on […]