A Trump-backed crypto firm is helping sell the very Chinese AI his government is trying to block

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A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement that sits awkwardly beside the administration’s own campaign to choke off China’s AI industry.

Reuters reported on Monday that World Liberty Financial, the Trump-linked crypto firm, is behind WorldClaw, a Hong Kong-based service offering access to models from developers Washington has flagged as security risks.

WorldClaw’s pitch is a menu of roughly 90 AI models, of which about 43 come from Chinese companies.

They reportedly include Alibaba and Baidu, both designated by the Pentagon as aligned with China’s military, and Z.ai, which is subject to US Commerce Department export restrictions.

The line-up is also said to feature DeepSeek and Moonshot, two labs that American officials have accused of building their systems on stolen US technology. Models from OpenAI...

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