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Jeffrey Ding on the Spread of AI

Eliot Chen — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The political scientist tells us why we shouldn't just focus on how good countries are at innovation — but how well they adopt new technologies.

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What Happened At America’s Own Military-Civil Fusion Fair

Katrina Northrop — Sun, 12 May 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The hot topic at a major D.C. conference this week was how the government and companies can cooperate in areas like AI to counter China’s threat.

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Angela Huyue Zhang on Why Beijing Took On the Tech Giants

Eliot Chen — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The academic talks about the reasons behind China’s crackdown on its tech sector and its legacy, as well as how Chinese regulators are tackling AI.

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China’s AI Pioneers Face A Critical Year

Paul Triolo — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:00:00 +0000

China's AI industry is still developing and it's still unclear who will emerge as the market leaders.

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How Google’s Alleged Thief Wooed Investors

Eliot Chen — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:00:00 +0000

The case of an employee at the U.S. internet giant who allegedly leaked artificial intelligence secrets raises questions for his Chinese backers.

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Who’s Who in the Semiconductor Supply Chain

Paul Sédille — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A detailed analysis of the companies involved in chip manufacturing globally shows a big role for both U.S. and Chinese firms.

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Jason Matheny on Tech, National Security and China

Bob Davis — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The chief executive of Rand Corp talks about semiconductors, AI and the future of Chinese investment in the U.S..

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Seoul’s Big Switch

Eliot Chen — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

South Korea dominates the world's production of memory chips, but its semiconductor firms have long depended on Chinese manufacturing. With the U.S. now trying to “decouple” the semiconductor industry from China, South Korea faces a significant challenge to reinvent itself.

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G42’s China Ties Reveal a Broader AI Debate

Katrina Northrop — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

How far should the U.S. government go to ensure that adversaries like China can’t catch up on AI?

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The Industry View of U.S. Export Controls: Moving the Goalposts

Paul Triolo — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Trump and Biden administrations’ efforts to restrict China’s access to chips has led to five years of confusion for companies.

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Back on Track?

Bob Davis — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Could a recent flurry of "track-two" activity be a sign that relations between Beijing and Washington are stabilizing? Informal meetings on critical topics like AI arms control and military-to-military communications have picked up recently, and both U.S. officials and the track-two participants say the impact was obvious at November's summit between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden. Bob Davis reports.

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Gregory Allen on the U.S.-China Tech Rivalry

Eliot Chen — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The analyst explains why the U.S.'s chip export controls represent a turning point in its relationship with China and the prospects for future multilateral co-operation.

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Who is ZhenFund?

Ella Apostoaie — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A look at one of China’s largest angel investors, with a penchant for artificial intelligence.

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G42’s Ties To China Run Deep

Katrina Northrop — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

More details on the Emirati technology firm at the nexus of China and the U.S.’s technological and geopolitical rivalry.

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What Role for China in Global AI Governance?

Paul Triolo — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The next six months will be crucial in determining how the West and China cooperate on regulating the fast-growing technology.

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The Race to Regulate

Rachel Cheung — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Beijing is eager for international collaboration on artificial intelligence, arguing that AI is a Pandora’s Box that poses existential threats to humanity if not properly controlled. But as China races ahead with regulating its own AI industry, can it win support for international governance as well?

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Chinese Regulators Give AI Firms a Helping Hand

Angela Huyue Zhang — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Chinese firms might even have a competitive advantage over their American and European counterparts.

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Who is Qualcomm Ventures?

Aaron Mc Nicholas — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 23:00:00 +0000

The venture capital arm of Qualcomm faces uncertainty as the U.S. tightens controls over tech investments in China.

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Matt Sheehan on how China is Shaping its AI World

Eliot Chen — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:00:00 +0000

The author and academic on Beijing's approach to regulating artificial intelligence, and how competitive Chinese AI firms could be.

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The Censorship Drag

Eliot Chen — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Given Beijing’s grip on information, can China’s AI companies build a chatbot to rival ChatGPT?

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The AI Lockout

Eliot Chen — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:00:00 +0000

If you still associate Nvidia with video games, it's time to update your priors. Thanks to its powerful chips and ubiquitous software, the U.S. company has produced a walled garden for artificial intelligence, with nearly every major player residing inside it. But having grown up inside Nvidia’s garden, China’s universities, laboratories and tech firms now find themselves locked out, banned from buying the company's most advanced chips. For China, it couldn't have come at a worse time.

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Nothing Ventured

Eliot Chen — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A look at venture capital investment into China.

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China’s Innovation Mandate

Simon Commander — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Beijing's ambitious plans to become an innovation powerhouse have produced mixed results.

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Reining in Pony.ai?

Eliot Chen — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:00:00 +0000

A look at the self-driving car startup’s emergence and warm welcome in China, and the challenges it faces amid U.S.-China technological decoupling.

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Semiconductor Shakeup

Eliot Chen — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 23:00:00 +0000

A look at key concepts in the semiconductor supply chain and what recent events mean in the competition over its control.

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The Surveillance Stake

Katrina Northrop — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0000

For years, a Chinese company backed by American pension fund money and built by KKR, one of world's premier private equity firms, publicly touted its ties to China's surveillance apparatus. A new investigation by Katrina Northrop into Cue Group, one of KKR's 16 portfolio companies in China, underscores what many in Washington are already asking: Is U.S. outbound investment in trouble?

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China’s Metaverse: The Great Firewall 2.0?

Anastasiia Carrier — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

China's metaverse could look a lot different than the rest of the world’s.

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Chen Qiufan on Science Fiction as a Weapon of Storytelling

Jordyn Haime — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The writer talks about why technology is the only valid tool we have right now, how sci-fi is becoming too conservative as a genre, and China's big data advantage.

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Rewriting China’s History

Alec Ash — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:54 +0000

The best new books on China.

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The AI Revolution and Strategic Competition with China

Eric Schmidt — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:00:00 +0000

AI will reorganize the world and change the course of human history. The democratic world must lead that process.

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Joe Dunford on the Military Dimension of the China Competition

Chris Li — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 23:00:00 +0000

The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs talks about Taiwan, AI, and how the mil-to-mil relationship with China went south.

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A.I. Revs Up

Hannah Reale — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:11 +0000

The United States is ahead in artificial intelligence — but China’s catching up.

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Banned, But Not Broken

Amy Hawkins — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:00:00 +0000

SenseTime, one of the world's hottest AI companies, was supposedly blacklisted when it was put on the U.S. Entity List last year. But that didn't deter many of its American partners.

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