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China Published Its Chip Weak Spots; Washington Hasn't Read Them
Beijing's customs rules track the few packaging tools it still has to import, and they show the cost of a break over Taiwan falling on both hardware and…
Sep 25
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The AI Warning About Bioweapons Just Built a Biology Lab
Public records reveal the address, the building, and the strategic logic behind Anthropic's secret facility
Sep 19
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The Biological Two Loops
China's AI Industrial Playbook Is Now Running on the Human Genome
Sep 9
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The Three Gates
What Your China Regulatory Team Isn't Telling You About Biological Sovereignty
Sep 1
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August 2026
How Massachusetts Could Lead on Human-Centered AI
I promised readers an analysis of this bill when it was filed.
Aug 5
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July 2026
A Chinese Model Did American Forensics
And Beijing filed loss of control under ethics. Two AI safety taxonomies, one blind spot.
Jul 28
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The Rise of Digital McCarthyism
OpenAI's new Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, just wrote the textbook demonstration of digital McCarthyism
Jul 20
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China Registered the Humans Last Year. Yesterday It Registered the Machines.
While the West debates whether AI is conscious, China decided where it stands.
Jul 16
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June 2026
China Doesn't Control Rare Earths. It Controls Everything That Turns Them Into Products.
How a seven-layer architecture filed across government documents reveals a chokehold that $7.3 billion can't break.
Jun 23
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Beijing Published the Blueprint for a National AI Agent Operating System. Nobody in the English-Language Press Covered It.
What a buried MIIT document reveals about China’s real AI infrastructure strategy, and why it matters more than any model benchmark.
Jun 18
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Fable 5, Trump, and the Law That Didn’t Exist: Inside the Shutdown Beijing Saw Coming
On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to pull its most advanced AI models off the market.
Jun 15
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The Purple Collar
Six engineers at Fort Meade, thirty-one million workers in China, and the job America refuses to name.
Jun 11
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