(Image credit: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) It looks like the US government might be getting a little more serious about tackling the growth and development of foreign AI companies, judging by a White House memo seen by the Financial Times . The memo reportedly says: "The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems." Distillation, in the context of AI, is the process of training a model based on the outputs of a more advanced one, so it can learn how to replicate it.…