AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
… This is an edition of Zeyi Yang and Louise Matsakis’ Made in China newsletter. …
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This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
… The other was an anti-regulation stream, for whom it was beneficial to point to China as a bogeyman: “If you regulate us, you let China win.” Would you point to any particular moment as a trigger? …
China Opens World’s First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center
… China's energy transition is not only driven by environmental considerations. …
Meet the Battery Startup Taking on China’s Giants
… ProLogium’s edge is that it doesn’t have a factory in China. In today’s geopolitics, dependence on Chinese technology is increasingly frowned upon. …
How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions
… This is an edition of Zeyi Yang and Louise Matsakis’ Made in China newsletter. …
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
… The scale of China’s preparations remains unknown, Easterly says, but its intent is clear. “What we found was really just the tip of the iceberg,” she says of her time running the Volt Typhoon response at CISA. “Do I believe there’s any change to China's very deliberate strategy to create access po… …
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
… China is in the midst of a humanoid robot boom. …
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
… The rise of ChatGPT, the struggle for technological leadership between the United States and China, and the growing power of Big Tech gradually convinced the Holy See that the issue was no longer just about tech ethics, but about the very future of humanity. …
A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
… China hawks claim that the country gains a strategic advantage by distilling US technology to build open-weight models that are less expensive to run. …
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
… AI labs are sensitive about this data because it can reveal to competitors—including other AI labs in the US and China—key details about the ways they train AI models. …