China investing heavily in AI education

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Meet Zhang Mingrui. The Beijing entrepreneur spent the summer as chief financial officer of a start-up selling digital scales. While building the business, he and his teammates relied on AI tools to perform a range of tasks: designing product, creating a website, managing financial risk. “I feel really accomplished,” he said. Zhang is 10 years old. The United States and China are in an intensifying race to dominate artificial intelligence. But while American tech executives and President Donald Trump debate the risks of the technology advancing too rapidly, Chinese parents are sending their children to classes and…