Former White House AI Czar David Sacks Warns U.S. at 'Critical Inflection Point' as China's Kimi K3 Tops Coding Leaderboard

David Sacks, who served as the White House's AI and crypto czar under the Trump administration, has warned that the United States has reached a "critical inflection point" in its AI policy, arguing that a growing thicket of federal and state regulation risks handing China the lead in the global AI race. His intervention was prompted by the strong debut of Kimi K3, a new model from the Chinese startup Moonshot AI that has climbed to the top of a closely watched coding benchmark.