Eric Schmidt says China is now just 6 months behind the U.S. in AI

Fast Company Tech • October 28, 2026

Generative AI

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, adviser to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space, gives his most unvarnished assessment yet. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response, hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian and recorded live at the Masters of Scale Summit 2026.

Read Full Article

Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February (Teddy Rosenbluth/New York Times)
S-1: Anthropic had $112.4B in cash and $19.3B in short-term investments on June 30, surpassing every non-bank US company except Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet (Leslie Picker/CNBC)
Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work
How to use Claude AI for Investing and Equity Research
AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them

Related Articles