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The MATCH Act and China’s DUV Imports
Nick Brown is a co-founder of the Center for Technology and Statecraft (CTS), a new think tank spun out of IFP, that looks at long-term technology ch…
1 day, 9 hours ago
Drone Dominance | Travis Metz - DIU Acting Director
He was recently promoted to DIU’s acting director after spending the past year running the Drone Dominance Program. Co-hosting are Brian Clark, senio…
4 days, 1 hour ago
Why a Chinese AI Lab’s Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable” | Richard Bian
Richard Bian is the head of product operations for Ant Ling, the foundational LLM at Ant. If you don’t know Ant, they most famously make Alipay, whic…
5 days, 1 hour ago
From Posting to Policy: Saif Khan on DUV and the AI Balance
Saif Khan makes his ChinaTalk debut. He is perhaps my favorite example of posting-to-policy that I’ve seen over the course of my time following Washi…
5 days, 17 hours ago
Matt Yglesias + Jerusalem Demsas + Jordan Crossover Pod
I join Matt and Jerusalem for an unhinged conversation (most entertaining of the year?) about China, AI, corruption, politics, and various other thin…
1 week, 1 day ago
AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race
Kevin Roose, formerly of the New York Times and Hard Fork, joins ChinaTalk to discuss AGI Chronicles, his new history of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind,…
1 week, 5 days ago
Data is the Hard Part | Building AI Tools for the Military
Everyone wants AI that wins wars. Very few people want to collect, label, store, and test the data it runs on.
Bharat Patel is currently Accenture’s …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
WarTalk: AutoWarCom + Project Meridian
It's a new fiscal year with no new budget, and the Pentagon has a fresh batch of proposals. Two stand out: a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, bu…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Section 301 and the Spice Man who Sued Trump Over Them
In February, the Supreme Court ruled Trump's IEEPA tariffs illegal. So why is everyone still paying them? Because the administration rebuilt them: fi…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
China's Economy is Broken | Logan Wright
After the global financial crisis, China added a third of global GDP to its bank assets in just eight years... the largest single-country credit expa…
3 weeks, 1 day ago