Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday told lawmakers in Congress that the U.S. needs to foster open artificial intelligence (AI) models to compete with those made by Chinese firms.Bessent testified before the House Financial Services Committee about the economy and international finance, with AI emerging as a key topic of discussion.The Treasury secretary was asked about advances in AI and progress towards artificial general intelligence and noted Anthropic's Mythos model released earlier this year represented a step change in that progression, while he added that the U.S. needs more ope...