Airbnb has found itself at the centre of a growing geopolitical debate over artificial intelligence, after CEO Brian Chesky pushed back against US lawmakers questioning the company’s use of Chinese-developed AI models.

In a Bloomberg interview, Chesky sort of insisted that Airbnb does not share user data with Chinese firms, even though it uses Alibaba’s Qwen model in a few situations.

He also argued that open source AI models simply don’t get access to company data, and he claimed that lawmakers are reacting from a........

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