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US investors poured billions into Chinese AI firms, taking part in US$40 billion in funding over 6 years Every company is an AI company... scmp.com/tech/tech-tren…

Moscow is equipping its fighter jets, submarines and soldiers with the help of Chinese companies, customs data shows wsj.com/articles/china… via The Wall Street Journal

Tech war: South Korea on alert for technology leaks to China as US restrictions intensify scmp.com/tech/tech-war/…

Taiwan’s Tech King to Nancy Pelosi: U.S. Is in Over Its Head politi.co/3E5E3t7 via POLITICO

“We’ve had a whack-a-mole approach on foreign technology that poses a national security risk,” Mr. Warner said in an interview…“We need an approach that is constitutionally defensible.” T” nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/…

Canada joins the TikTok ban. Groupthink is hard to stop. foxbusiness.com/technology/can…

TikTok a potential target in upcoming US bill to ban some foreign tech - Senator reut.rs/3L6q8r0

Jack Ma’s return confirms the regulatory storm is over. But the Party’s structural influence over the daily operation of companies entails long-term political risk. Great piece from ⁦⁦Shen Lu⁩ ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/articles/aliba…

“Ma’s re­turn jibes well with Bei­jing’s eco­nomic-re­cov­ery nar­ra­tive,” says ⁦Lu Xiaomeng⁩ . “But the party’s struc­tural in­flu­ence over the daily op­er­a­tion of com­pa­nies en­tails long-term po­lit­i­cal risk.” wsj.com/articles/aliba…

The best analysis of the inner workings of Alibaba’s power structure in a long time: “The partners have the exclusive right to nominate a simple majority of Alibaba's board of directors. The partnership still exists today and is hard to challenge.” asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-…

TSMC Seeks Up to $15 Billion From U.S. for Chip Plants but Objects to Conditions - WSJ wsj.com/articles/tsmc-…

“Several employees quit the company to set up their own and leaked the technologies to China via a Chinese broker. ” Will South Korea pass laws and rules to combat this type of technology transfer? Japan and Taiwan both did that. ft.com/content/9e72a9…

Douglas Ritz Why would China want to supply materials that could be incorporated into weapons systems that could be used against it? Even though the vast majority of the applications of the material are for civilian end uses. This is the same argument the US is making on advanced

Regulating AI Severely Limits Open-Source AI Some folks including Elon Musk hold the position that you should aggressively regulate AI while at the same time being pro open-source. Unfortunately, calling for aggressively and pre-maturely regulating AI will likely severely limit

Wayfair launched a tool that uses the image-generation AI model Stable Diffusion to help customers reimagine their living spaces. But other executives suffer from “POC fatigue,” an ongoing frustration with continual proof of concepts that continue to fail. wsj.com/articles/growt…

China and the US agree to talk about AI, but will anyone be listening? “It seems to be more about … reassuring both sides that the other doesn’t have some doomsday machine." tinyurl.com/46847whw Paul Triolo Lu Xiaomeng Martijn Rasser Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀

Its current investments in China include around 16 AI start-ups and 15 in the semiconductor industry, as well other tech areas. Intel Capital may be forced to divest from some companies once the US regulations take effect ft.com/content/0217ca…