China is building an AI war machine. Washington must wake up before it’s too late

On June 24, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference chip, developed with Broadcom and known internally as "Jalapeño." Most Americans will never see it. Yet Beijing certainly noticed. The announcement signals that the contest between America and China has moved beyond software and chatbots into a struggle for control of the infrastructure that will shape economic, military, and technological power in the twenty-first century. The nations that control the chips, data centers, electricity,