US-China AI Competition and Policy

US widens AI trade restrictions from chips to physical robots, targeting Chinese humanoid and connected machines; China's 2M industrial robot fleet creates data advantage loop; US bans foreign-made humanoid robots; NIST joins DOE's Genesis Mission with two-year sprints on manufacturing drones and cyberthreat detection; Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max 2.4T MoE open-weight model; policy analysis on China AI distillation; New York bill proposes banning humanoid robots in schools.