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Jake Newby is the author of the Concrete Avalanche Substack, which covers the best music coming out of China. If you enjoy this playlist, check out Jake’s sets from 20...

What does Liang Wenfeng want? The CEO of DeepSeek is now richer than either Dario Amodei or Sam Altman. Backed by his careful watch and the immense wealth of his hedge fund, a little-known group of researc...

Elias X. Huber, author of the China ∩ Quantum blog, is a researcher at Fraunhofer Singapore and Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies, where he works on security assurance for quantum cryptography. He previously was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and holds an MSc from E...

Over the past few years, we’ve seen hints of policymakers and national leaders using AI models in their actual policy decision-making. Senior leadership across the world has started using AI not just for tactical or operational tasks, but increasingly for broad strategic decision-making.

While there’s the promise of uplift and smarter calls on some of the most consequen...

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 pu...