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The following is a cross-post from 葬AI / FuneralAI, an uproariously funny Chinese blog about the ups and downs of the AI industry. Check out their many other articles on Substack and WeChat Public ...

Jay Kimmel is a seasonal fellow with GovAI, where he conducted this research, as well as a fellow with the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations and a former U.S. diplomat. As the next ...

Leia Wang is a is a nonresident scholar in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as an associate at the Centre for the Governance ...

The Prime Minister of Sweden uses AI models for second opinions on policy. The German Chancellor is testing frontier models against draft legislation on his personal laptop. The US Secretary of War is ...

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Nick Corvino is in Cape Town for two weeks… email Nick at nick@chinatalk.media if you’re interested in joining a ChinaTalk meetup! We’ve recently tried to pin down how much compute China actually has, ...