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The Trump administration plans to send thousands of American science and math graduates overseas through a new Peace Corps program. The Tech Corps aims to help partner nations adopt U.S. AI technology and steer them away from Chinese alternatives.

Staying on Washington's AI push—Taiwan has overtaken China as the United States' top source of tech imports for the first time in decades.

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