Ben Thompson is wrong: US frontier labs are right to be panicking

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Author: larrysalibra

Date: 7/20/2026

Article Summary:
The author argues that US frontier labs are structurally screwed due to high costs and lack of secret sauce, and will be unable to compete with Chinese labs.