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Why a Chinese AI Lab’s Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable”
and nobody knows what it’ll look like
9 hrs ago • Irene Zhang and Phoebe Chow
“I Will Complain to the EU!”
How 107 laid-off Chinese graduates turned BMW, VW, and Mercedes into leverage
Oct 14 • yixuan
WarTalk: AutoWarCom and Project Meridian
+ Newt returns!
Oct 13 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
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 • Phoebe Chow
Kevin Roose on the AGI Believers: Oppenheimer with Equity
this one was so fun
Oct 9 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
The Spice Trader vs. the Tariffs
a section 301 update from the litigant
Oct 8 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
China, the FCC, and the Logic of Transceivers
The dependencies a potential rule misses
Oct 7 • Quinn Ennis
Data is the Hard Part
Everyone wants AI that wins wars. Very few people want to collect, label, store, and test the data it runs on.
Oct 6 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
China’s AI Safety Money Problem
Philanthropy is weak. The state is strong. Safety has to work the system to survive.
Oct 5 • Nick Corvino
CWN#15: The best Chinese short fiction of 2026 (so far)
A mid-autumn special edition
Published on Cold Window Newsletter • Oct 4
In Case You Missed It...
Best of September!
Oct 3 • Phoebe Chow
Building China’s Two Starlinks
is two better than one?
Oct 2 • Paddy Stephens
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