1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (625+ words) How much compute does China have? Despite its all-important relevance to American export controls, the AI race between the U.S. and China, and national security, this question remains unanswered. The work for the two articles was conducted independently, and only after…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (270+ words) Anon contributor "Soon Kueh" occasionally writes about China and delights in bureaucracy. You can read more of her guest posts here and here. Before we answer those questions, we have to look at the geothermal projects that emerged against all…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (511+ words) Today's guest post is from Zilan Qian, a programme associate at the Oxford China Policy Lab and a Season Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI. "Thank god right now the PRC'doesn't strike me as being that AGI-pilled....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1760+ words) Caleb Harding is a Mandarin-speaking BYU CS graduate. He previously interned at the US Embassy in Jakarta and Doublethink Lab in Taiwan. He is currently based in D.C. When you think of the biggest technologies of today, the most promising fields…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (310+ words) The following is a cross-post from Kyle Chan's excellent High Capacity substack. But a focus on technology is not new for China. And China's obsession with science and technology did not start with Xi Jinping. Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1803+ words) To discuss nuclear weapons and AI, we're joined by Pranay Vaddi, former senior director for arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation on the NSC. He's now in a new policy role at Sandia Labs and at MIT. Chris McGuire also joins…...

3+ week, 35+ min ago  (1156+ words) JingYu is a designer, architect, and the author of the Old North Whale Review (). Driven by a love for exploring the crossroads of rationality and creativity, his work traces the tangled roots of modern China's "Chineseness' across history, culture, and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1059+ words) It's been a big week for Chinese AI video. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 and Kuaishou's Kling 3.0 are going viral. Seedance probably takes the cake, being promoted for smoother motion, stronger scene coherence, and watermark-free downloads. My favorite trend so far: people making…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago  (1748+ words) Russell Kaplan, co-founder of Cognition " the company behind Devin " and previously at Scale AI and Tesla, joins the podcast to discuss what "software abundance" could mean for government. Why government software is so broken " Despite spending over $100B annually on IT,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (718+ words) But we make do, and oftentimes writers simply use the English word. Developers, creatives, and entrepreneurs in China have been creating many interesting coding projects with AI tools over the past year, utilizing not only popular tools by Silicon Valley…...