{"id":27964,"date":"2025-05-17T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27964"},"modified":"2025-05-17T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T09:33:17","slug":"apples-alibaba-a-i-deal-provokes-washingtons-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27964","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Alibaba A.I. Deal Provokes Washington\u2019s Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration and congressional officials have raised concerns about a deal to put a Chinese company\u2019s artificial intelligence on iPhones.<\/p>\n

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Apple believes the future success of the iPhone depends on the availability of new artificial intelligence features. But tensions between Washington and Beijing may cripple the tech giant\u2019s plans to deliver A.I. in its second-most-important market, China.<\/p>\n

In recent months, the White House and congressional officials have been scrutinizing Apple\u2019s plan to strike a deal with Alibaba to make the Chinese company\u2019s A.I. available on iPhones in China, three people familiar with the deliberations said. They are concerned that the deal would help a Chinese company improve its artificial intelligence abilities, broaden the reach of Chinese chatbots with censorship limits and deepen Apple\u2019s exposure to Beijing laws over censorship and data sharing.<\/p>\n

The scrutiny is the latest example of the challenges that Apple has run into as it tries to sustain its businesses in the United States and China at a time of rising geopolitical tensions. Three years ago, the U.S. government succeeded in pressuring the company to abandon a deal to buy memory chips from a Chinese supplier, the Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation, or YMTC. More recently, the company has been challenged by U.S. tariffs<\/a> on Chinese-made products like the iPhone, threatening to cut into the company\u2019s profits.<\/p>\n

Walking away from an Alibaba deal would have far graver consequences for Apple\u2019s business in China, which accounts for almost a fifth of the company\u2019s sales. The partnership with the Chinese tech company is critical to bringing A.I. features to iPhones in one of the world\u2019s most highly regulated and competitive markets. Without the Alibaba partnership, iPhones could fall behind smartphones from Chinese rivals like Huawei and Xiaomi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Officials at the White House and the House Select Committee on China have raised the deal directly with Apple executives, said the three people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. During meetings in Washington with senior Apple executives and lobbyists, government officials asked about terms of the deal, what data Apple would be sharing with Alibaba and whether it would be signing any legal commitments with Chinese regulators. In the meeting with the House committee in March, Apple executives were unable to answer most of those questions, two of these people said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alibaba would help Apple compete with homegrown competitors in China.<\/span>Qilai Shen\/Bloomberg<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Trump administration and congressional officials have raised concerns about a deal to put a Chinese company\u2019s artificial intelligence on iPhones.Apple believes the future success of the iPhone depends on the availability of new artificial intelligence features. But tensions between Washington and Beijing may cripple the tech giant\u2019s plans to deliver A.I. in its second-most-important market, China.In recent months, the White House and congressional officials have been scrutinizing Apple\u2019s plan to strike a deal with Alibaba to make the Chinese company\u2019s A.I. available on iPhones in China, three people familiar with the deliberations said. They are concerned that the deal would help a Chinese company improve its artificial intelligence abilities, broaden the reach of Chinese chatbots with censorship limits and deepen Apple\u2019s exposure to Beijing laws over censorship and data sharing.The scrutiny is the latest example of the challenges that Apple has run into as it tries to sustain its businesses in the United States and China at a time of rising geopolitical tensions. Three years ago, the U.S. government succeeded in pressuring the company to abandon a deal to buy memory chips from a Chinese supplier, the Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation, or YMTC. More recently, the company has been challenged by U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made products like the iPhone, threatening to cut into the company\u2019s profits.Walking away from an Alibaba deal would have far graver consequences for Apple\u2019s business in China, which accounts for almost a fifth of the company\u2019s sales. The partnership with the Chinese tech company is critical to bringing A.I. features to iPhones in one of the world\u2019s most highly regulated and competitive markets. Without the Alibaba partnership, iPhones could fall behind smartphones from Chinese rivals like Huawei and Xiaomi.Officials at the White House and the House Select Committee on China have raised the deal directly with Apple executives, said the three people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. During meetings in Washington with senior Apple executives and lobbyists, government officials asked about terms of the deal, what data Apple would be sharing with Alibaba and whether it would be signing any legal commitments with Chinese regulators. In the meeting with the House committee in March, Apple executives were unable to answer most of those questions, two of these people said.Alibaba would help Apple compete with homegrown competitors in China.Qilai Shen\/BloombergWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27966,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27967,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964\/revisions\/27967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}