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Piggybacking to the Frontier
The Firms Selling RL Environments to Chinese Labs
12 hrs ago
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Aqib Zakaria
and
Quinn Ennis
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The Spy Who Leased Me
Emergency pod with Chris McGuire on l'affaire Jensen
Nov 10
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Jordan Schneider
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WarTalk: Lame Duck War, Pete on Notice, Team Yankee
and what makes a good staffer
Nov 9
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Jordan Schneider
and
Phoebe Chow
50
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Why the Cyberpocalypse Might Hit China Harder
The geopolitics of disclosure norms and hacker incentives
Nov 8
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Chang Che
88
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The New Senators on China
Fresh faces in the Villa!
Nov 5
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Jordan Schneider
,
Lily Ottinger
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Aqib Zakaria
,
Quinn Ennis
, and
Irene Zhang
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WarTalk: Kofman on Why Russia's Doing Badly
+ ChinaTalk at CoRL!
Nov 2
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Jordan Schneider
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Phoebe Chow
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Korea’s Stock Market Crashed $1 Trillion. What Does That Mean for the Global AI Race?
Richard Gray is an analyst who works for a foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C.
Nov 1
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Richard Gray
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Is Half of China’s AI Making Slop?
The 55% token myth, and China’s guilty pleasure
Oct 30
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Zilan Qian
88
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Xi vs Trump on Corruption
The Shame Gap
Oct 30
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Jordan Schneider
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The Manhattan Project, Take Two
Barnett Koven on American innovation and Super Intelligence
Oct 29
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Jordan Schneider
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Phoebe Chow
50
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Roasting China’s AI Industry
“AI is full of scammers, narcissists, and people whose activities are incomprehensible — and somehow they get funding.“
Oct 29
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Irene Zhang
66
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10 Takeaways from Q3
AI, China, defense, national security, supply chains, the Protestant roots of Kim Il-sung’s Messiah complex, the lethality of hydrofluoric acid, and…
Oct 11
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Phoebe Chow
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In Case You Missed It...
Best of September!
Oct 3
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Phoebe Chow
43
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good books so far this year
Homer, Shakespeare, and Kim Il Sung. Plus: nyc’s best fish head
Aug 31
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Jordan Schneider
66
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China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)
Jake Newby is the author of the Concrete Avalanche Substack, which covers the best music coming out of China.
Aug 14
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Jake
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AI
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Piggybacking to the Frontier
The Firms Selling RL Environments to Chinese Labs
12 hrs ago
•
Aqib Zakaria
and
Quinn Ennis
57
3
7
Why the Cyberpocalypse Might Hit China Harder
The geopolitics of disclosure norms and hacker incentives
Nov 8
•
Chang Che
88
7
14
Is Half of China’s AI Making Slop?
The 55% token myth, and China’s guilty pleasure
Oct 30
•
Zilan Qian
88
15
20
The Manhattan Project, Take Two
Barnett Koven on American innovation and Super Intelligence
Oct 29
•
Jordan Schneider
and
Phoebe Chow
50
1
5
War
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WarTalk: Kofman on Why Russia's Doing Badly
+ ChinaTalk at CoRL!
Nov 2
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Jordan Schneider
and
Phoebe Chow
47
1
10
WarTalk: AutoWarCom and Project Meridian
+ Newt returns!
Oct 13
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Jordan Schneider
and
Phoebe Chow
43
1
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WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes
Every service for themselves + autonomy
Sep 25
•
Jordan Schneider
41
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Can Taiwan Build Drones? Part 2
This is Part 2 of our Taiwan drone series!
Sep 16
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Ethan Kessler
45
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Semiconductors
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Where is China’s Groq?
Why isn’t China making HBM-free chips?
Oct 23
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Aqib Zakaria
and
Hamish Low
57
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The Lithography Lever
The case for cutting China off from DUV
Oct 20
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Jordan Schneider
,
Aqib Zakaria
, and
Phoebe Chow
36
3
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China, the FCC, and the Logic of Transceivers
The dependencies a potential rule misses
Oct 7
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Quinn Ennis
57
5
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“Eastern Data, Western Compute” is Fake
China promised to move its data centers west. Now it’s backtracking.
Jul 10
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Irene Zhang
and
Nick Corvino
66
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