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EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls
Chris Miller (chip wars), Chris McGuire (10 year State Dpt vet, check out the past episode on the feed) and I discuss a big move by MOFCOM to squeeze…
5 months, 1 week ago
AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia
Last week, Jensen Huang said that China is “nanoseconds behind” the US in chipmaking. Is he right? Today, Chris McGuire joins ChinaTalk for a US-Chin…
5 months, 1 week ago
Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs
Bryan Clark, a former submariner now with the Hudson Institute, joins the show!
Outtro speech: George C. Scott's rendition of Patton's speech
Learn m…
5 months, 1 week ago
RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking
At long last, Jeff Alstott, the fairy godfather of DC AI policy, joins the show. He’s the founding director for RAND’s center for technology and secu…
5 months, 1 week ago
Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (our dumbest show yet)
for better or worse, the first ep on chinatalk feed I had to put an explicit tag on...
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5 months, 2 weeks ago
Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence
Anthony Vinci, former CTO of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and author of the upcoming book The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, joins as…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater
Jasmine Sun of https://jasmi.news/ and Nathan Lambert of https://www.interconnects.ai/ discuss a wide variety of topics of interest around AI and cul…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers
back at it again
Outtro Music: Boys of the Old Brigade, Wolf Tones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoQBXgbVVT4&ab_channel=rebelsongs
Book: https://ww…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
Nate Silver writes Silver Bulletin and is the author of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, now in paperback with a new foreword.
In today’s …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Uncle Sam is taking a bite out of companies left and right. Today, we’re going to focus on MP Materials — the Trump administration’s answer to China’…
6 months ago