China’s AI Jobs Problem: What Economists Fear and Why the Fixes May Fall Short
Chinese economists warn that AI could deepen China's economic imbalances, while the government's employment strategy faces both practical and fiscal obstacles
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China's 10,000 Gaming Talents
Charlotte Bullard is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins SAIS, where she focused on China and tech policy. She writes the Substack PandaMonium. In this article, Charlotte shows how China’s gaming industry is a microcosm of a recurring contradiction in Chinese policy: Beijing sets…
Riding Solo in Santiago
Kem is the best soda in the world. I first had this glorious artificially-flavored pineapple beverage in Chile, during my ten day trip throughout the country.
Where is China’s Groq?
In late 2025, HBM was all the rage. You need HBM for AI inference; inference decode is a memory-constrained operation, and only HBM was able to reach bandwidth speeds to serve models effectively.
Jordan Schneider posted new notes
Jordan Schneider You follow 4d What happens to the small steps towards safety chinese model makers have started implementing once they really begin to feel the heat from western open models? 7 1 Jordan Schneider You follow 3d I’ve been starting convos w strangers with “what’s on…
Take Ten-Thousand: Egocentric Data Collection for Humanoid Robots
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