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Is Half of China’s AI Making Slop?
The 55% token myth, and China’s guilty pleasure
11 hrs ago • Zilan Qian
Xi vs Trump on Corruption
The Shame Gap
11 hrs ago • Jordan Schneider
The Manhattan Project, Take Two
Barnett Koven on American innovation and Super Intelligence
Oct 29 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
Roasting China’s AI Industry
“AI is full of scammers, narcissists, and people whose activities are incomprehensible — and somehow they get funding.“
Oct 29 • Irene Zhang
China’s AI Jobs Problem: What Economists Fear and Why the Fixes May Fall Short
Chinese economists warn that AI could deepen China's economic imbalances, while the government's employment strategy faces both practical and fiscal…
Published on Sinification • Oct 28
China's 10,000 Gaming Talents
Essay Contest Winner!
Oct 26 • PandaMonium
Riding Solo in Santiago
Aqib’s Notes on Chile (Santiago, Concepción, Antofagasta, and Atacama)
Oct 25 • Aqib Zakaria
Where is China’s Groq?
Why isn’t China making HBM-free chips?
Oct 23 • Aqib Zakaria and Hamish Low
Take Ten-Thousand: Egocentric Data Collection for Humanoid Robots
why selling robot data is tough business; and ChinaTalk at CoRL!
Oct 22 • A. Chen
MOFCOM's New Rules and the Future of Chinese AI
a big deal
Oct 21 • Quinn Ennis, Irene Zhang, Lily Ottinger, and Aqib Zakaria
The Lithography Lever
The case for cutting China off from DUV
Oct 20 • Jordan Schneider, Aqib Zakaria, and Phoebe Chow
Drone Dominance
the Pentagon’s $1bn drone contest
Oct 19 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
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