The Governance Gap Widens as AI Returns Concentrate at the Top
Stanford University's 2026 AI Index, released on April 13, established something the industry has been reluctant to say plainly. The United States now leads China in frontier AI performance by just 2.7 percentage points, down from a gap of 17 to 31 points three years ago, and the institutions designed to manage this technology are falling further behind its capabilities with every passing quarter.
