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Nov 26, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
As the next administration prepares to take office — with Elon Musk at Trump’s side — OpenAI is busy touting its AI vision in Washington. On November 13, the company released an AI infrastructure blueprint designed to bolster government support for building the physical structures AI-enabled software relies on.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
Albeit to varying degrees, most of the major players in Silicon Valley have thrown their support behind President-elect Trump. Yet big tech benefits from big data, big markets, and big government support. The sector’s playbook is inherently global – even “globalist.” At times, it even intersects with the nation non grata of Trumpism: China.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Louise Matsakis |Johanna Costigan
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
wired.com | Louise Matsakis |Johanna Costigan
In a video uploaded to the Chinese social media platform Bilibili in October, a Shein warehouse worker in southern China with black-rimmed glasses tells the camera he picked 650 clothing items during his last shift—a feat he claims to have accomplished, in part, by not taking a single bathroom break.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
High-quality, low-cost batteries — used to power clean technologies such as electric vehicles and energy storage — are crucial for the green transition and the prosperity it has the potential to facilitate. They also happen to be made primarily by Chinese companies.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
The House of Representatives just wrapped up a week dedicated to passing 25 China-themed bills, primarily centered on restricting Chinese companies’ presence in the U.S. market. The purpose of “China Week,” according to John Moolenaar, Chairman of the House Select Committee on China, is for Congress to “tell Xi Jinping, this far, and no further” using “one voice.”In practice, lawmakers did not manage to speak with such unity.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
Congress is likely to vote on the “Countering CCP Drones Act” during what House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office has dubbed “China week,” which is slated for later this month. The drone bill was included as a proposed amendment to the annual military budget reauthorization in June.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
Artificial intelligence was mentioned multiple times in the resolution for China’s Third Plenum, a major agenda-setting gathering of China’s leaders centered on economic policy that took place last week. The resolution discussed how AI should be harnessed for economic growth, cooperation with developing countries, and protecting minors online. But the Third Plenum was most focused on AI safety – and the technology’s implications for China’s national security.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
A severe blow to regulatory agencies’ power leveled earlier this month by the Supreme Court could have major ramifications for the United States’ nascent efforts to regulate artificial intelligence. The Court decided in Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo to overrule landmark precedent from 1984: Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Johanna Costigan
China doesn’t need the most advanced chips to take a leading role in global AI development, Zhang Ping’an, CEO of Huawei Cloud, said at the World AI Conference held in Shanghai last week. Based on the technologies exhibited at the Conference, major players in the country’s AI industry may be attempting to draw attention away from China’s chip shortages and toward its advancements in a quintessential sci-fi form: humanoid robots.
