# Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies

**Published:** October 25, 2026
**Author:** Manuel Uth
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/ex-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-calls-openai-and-anthropic-modern-colonial-tr

In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every other country as a dependency. The race won't be decided by breakthroughs but by who can bankroll it. US corporations alone…

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**Tags:** #OpenAI #Anthropic #Дата-центры & ЦОД

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