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Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy
Will AIs be jealous of one another?

The Room Where AI Happens
A weekend at the Curve conference—an AI insider gathering in Berkeley revealed how people think about AGI timelines, China, creativity, and writing

Exclusive-Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say - AOL
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI

China Releases “AI Plus” Policy: A Brief Analysis
Tonight, everyone’s WeChat Moments was flooded by one document.

Why China is giving away its best AI models
Chinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.

EXCLUSIVE: Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, including those yet to be released, three people familiar with the discussions said.

Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
What eras bookend our interregnum?

China's Artificial General Intelligence | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Recent op-eds comparing the United States’ and China’s artificial intelligence (AI) programs fault the former for its focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI) while praising China for its success in applying AI throughout the whole of society. These op-eds overlook an important point: although China is outpacing the United States in diffusing AI across its society, China has by no means de-emphasized its state-sponsored pursuit of AGI.


Generative AI in a Nutshell - how to survive and thrive in the age of AI
Lessons Answer.AI can learn from history’s greatest R&D labs
Today’s piece was put together with the help of several conversations with Answer.AI co-founder Jeremy Howard.

Lexicon: How China talks about 'agentic AI' - DigiChina
Three months after the Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked global markets with a highly capable reasoning model, another China-linked company made a splash with a capable agentic AI system. Did Manus, released in March 2025, portend Chinese leadership in AI systems that go beyond chatbots to take action on the user’s behalf? Victor Mustar, head […]
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our lab Slack to share news, experiences, and memes. We had several long and grueling lab meetings talk

A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
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The Missing Resistance in China’s AI Debate
As Washington negotiates AI guardrails with Beijing, it must understand why the AI debate in China is so quiet: control, not consent.

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Taiwan’s cyber-ambassador Audrey Tang on why the real danger of AI isn’t that machines imitate humans, but that humans adapt to machines.
