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• The 2024 China Developer Survey Report is here!
• Promising Topics for U.S.–China Dialogues on AI Risks and Governance
• Two Rulings on Fair Use and LLM Training
• Can Multinationals Win in China? Lessons from Apple’s Experience
• Financial Security: Lian Ping on US Sanctions, SWIFT and De-Dollarisation

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• The Aftermath — Her husband gifted a female streamer 16 million RMB
• SCMP article
• Zhibo gonghui: China’s ‘live-streaming guilds’ of manipulation experts
• The influence of AI Friendship Apps on users' well-being and addiction
• Verification of Frontier AI
• John S. Foster Jr., Pentagon scientist who developed warheads, dies at 102

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• AI large models can’t solve Gaokao questions, nor do they dare to solve them
• ImportAI on China’s heterogenous compute cluster
• Can Multinationals Win in China? Lessons from Apple’s Experience
• Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI in Primary and Secondary Schools (in Chinese)
• Artificial Eyes - Generative AI in China’s Military Intelligence

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• ChinAI #307
• Between the U.S. and China, it is not about “who defeats whom”
• People who work for AI, lost in data labeling
• AI trainers
• AI large models can’t solve gaokao questions, nor do they dare to solve them
• There are really no good data center stocks to buy
• As the popularity of large model (startups) recedes, real technology innovators begin to be “seen”
• How does a Chinese AI video product attract 60 million global users?
• When rumor spreading rides the wind of “AI”
• China is implementing a national internet ID system. How does the national ID card protect personal information?
• When I asked DeepSeek about good ideas to extend the weekend

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• ChinAI #237
• ChinAI #261
• Sohu article
• GitHub page
• Q4 2024 update
• 2025 Q1 benchmark
• GitHub page
• DSPSafeBench
• What China’s generative AI registration data can tell us about China’s AI competitiveness
• Concordia’s AI Safety in China Newsletter
• We surveyed 12 public companies about the truth behind DeepSeek’s all-in-one servers
• A daughter spent two years creating her own AI father

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• Can AI save China's independent cloud providers?
• Leiphone article
• Green monetary policy in China - window guidance and the promotion of sustainable lending and investment
• Funding the AI Cloud — Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Investments, Part 1
• After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left
• Fading Beacon

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• China’s Big 5 Foundation Model Companies contend for supremacy
• ChinAI #284)
• UC San Diego Book Talk
• Advancing Department of Defense Test and Evaluation for AI and Autonomous Systems
• TNSR article
• China's province most lacking in universities is frantically building junior colleges (in Chinese)
• The Romance of Being Unreadable

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• New-type AI Storage Research Report
• 80% of those chips to south China
• China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. Now many stand unused.
• DeepSeek, Huawei, Export Controls, and the Future of the U.S.-China AI Race
• The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership
• Are You My Boyfriend

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• 20 percent
• ChinAI #46
• American

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• New-type AI Storage Research Report
• ChinAI #254
• Why AI Language models choke on too much text
• The Fear Tariff
• A Dictionary of Maqiao
• The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits

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