Korea's Stock Market Crashed $1 Trillion. What Does That Mean for the Global AI Race?
In this environment, the threat of a market correction cascading across global markets and the U.S.- China tech competition looms large. The Zenith: ...
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MOFCOM's New Rules and the Future of Chinese AI - ChinaTalk
The proposed controls also cover exports of advanced AI -generated content (AIGC) detectors. Detection tools with accuracy above 98% are in the ...
The Case for DUV Controls - ChinaTalk
... AI risks . If it turns out not to be a thing, we'll be happy to have done all of those policies anyway. There are many places where you can find ...
Why a Chinese AI Lab's Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable” - ChinaTalk
... Chinese company Z. ai locally to process those logs. Richard, as someone sitting in another open lab in China and learning about this over the past ...
China's AI Safety Money Problem - by Nick Corvino - ChinaTalk
China is intrinsically less concerned about AI risk . Chinese people are ... Meanwhile, IDC now treats agent- threat detection as a distinct Chinese ...
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How the US and China Can Cooperate on AI Biorisk - ChinaTalk
And it has done a worse job at ensuring its AI models don't spit out biorisks. An America-only screening regime would reduce risk , but it would not ...
Open Models are the United Front of AI - ChinaTalk
It has replaced “America encircles Chinese AI ” with a protracted war in which open source encircles closed source.2. The logic of the theory of ...
How Trump and Xi Can Do AI Safety - by Jay Kimmel - ChinaTalk
... AI risks . It envisions agreements on compute declaration and an AI training pause by 2029, and offers arms control analogues. But China is forging ...
China on the Hugging Face Incident - by Irene Zhang - ChinaTalk
ai's GLM-5.2) to patch its security. Others are more cautious, focussing on the threats models like this can pose and how Chinese organizations should ...
How AI Becomes a Political Crisis - ChinaTalk
Every subsidy, wage guarantee, and jobs guarantee carries the risk of brute-force subsidizing a very specific economic structure — one that works at ...
Why China's AI Bubble Is Also Industrial Policy - ChinaTalk
As one Chinese venture capitalist explained to me,1 the game is China's AI market, and investors are the players. Each investor races to pass ...
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Kimi and Xi - by Jordan Schneider - ChinaTalk
That doesn't happen in China yet. The catastrophic risk narrative has not taken hold. People's negative feelings about AI are mostly about job loss ...
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China's Mythos Moment - ChinaTalk
When things get serious once China has an AI model that can truly compete with or even exceed the cyber capabilities the US has access to, it's ...
We talked to Chinese people about AI . It's more than “anxiety.” - ChinaTalk
Workers whose jobs involve physical presence and manual skill have less immediate reason to see today's AI tools as a direct threat to their ...
Sen. Slotkin: NDAA, AI guardrails, and banning China's cars - ChinaTalk
Her bill with Bernie Moreno banning Chinese connected vehicles,. The Democratic playbook if the party flips a chamber in November,. Data ownership, ...
China's AI optimism isn't what it seems - by Zilan Qian - ChinaTalk
China's AI optimism isn't what it seems. The enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism ...
Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem - ChinaTalk
China proposed new rules to label AI content, but enforcement is failing, driven by economic priorities and geopolitical propaganda.
Xi-Trump to talk AI Safety, Huh? - ChinaTalk
The more capable American models become, the more capable Chinese models become, the more risk , danger , and potential bad actor misuse emerges. Some ...
The Partying Gap - by Irene Zhang and Jordan Schneider - ChinaTalk
The single threat decaying Americans' social lives is the Chinese Communist Party. ... Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends.
Claude Mythos: China Reacts - by Irene Zhang - ChinaTalk
The logic behind this move: only by publicly disclosing the threat can you drive defensive action; but opening up the capability itself could trigger ...
Data Hacks and the US- China AI Race - by Project 2027 - ChinaTalk
Data Hacks and the US- China AI Race ... Trent Kannegieter is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. Previously, he was Chief of Staff at SparkAI, a machine ...
China's AI Companies Are Going Closed Source - ChinaTalk
Open source AI in China did have a moment. Reeling from the shock of ChatGPT in 2023 and 2024, Chinese model makers gained global mindshare and ...
China on AI Job Loss: “No 'Matrix' for us, thanks.” - ChinaTalk
Beijing wants AI to serve as a new engine of economic growth and productivity increases. But how will China navigate the challenges of adopting AI ...
How China Hopes to Build AGI Through Self-Improvement - ChinaTalk
He added that AI could do most, if not all, of what software engineers currently do within six to twelve months — at which point, he noted, progress ...
China's technology long game - by Kyle Chan - ChinaTalk
And this presaged in many ways China's current obsession with AI where developments in the US, such as AlphaGo's defeat of the top human Go player ...
Nukes and AI - by Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow - ChinaTalk
Whether better data and decision support actually reduce nuclear risk or just make escalation faster and more opaque. How much automation is too much, ...
Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem - ChinaTalk
China proposed new rules to label AI content, but enforcement is failing, driven by economic priorities and geopolitical propaganda.
Making Money in Chinese AI Safety - by Nick Corvino - ChinaTalk
Finally, we'll examine how the West tends to frame safety and technological progress ... Chinese AI companies with the most CAC registrations.
Autonomous Weapons 101 + Dario v Hegseth - ChinaTalk
Autonomous weapons systems, AI decision support systems, automation bias — if we could all use the same words for what we're talking about, it ...
China Reacts to Anthropic-DoW - ChinaTalk
Anthropic, which has done more than any other Western AI company to frame China as a threat , may now be deemed the same “supply chain risk ” ...