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• Inference Scaling and AI Governance
• Recreating the Smells of History

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• The People who Resist AI
• ChinAI #144
• ChinAI #335
• The development of Internet Fiction in China, from Internet sub-culture to mainstream literature
• The Temple of Earth and I (translated excerpts)
• Reputation Collectives - how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies
• ChinAI #61: A Backlash to Social Credit Blacklists?

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My latest article on how international private governance could play a role in AI governance.

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• AI Safety/Security Governance Report
• ChinAI translation and coverage
• Alibaba’s The Large Language Model Technology development and governance practice report
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• Support for Washington Post international employees

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ByteDance vs. Tencent vs. Alibaba.

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• Chronicles of the Great AI Battle among ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent — A destiny-changing Conflict

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Plus, China's Industry-led AI Security and Safety Commitments.

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• AI Safety/Security Governance Research Report (2025)
• INTENT-FT
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• How China and the US Can Make AI Safer for Everyone
• The (Geo)Political Economy of AI Openness - US and Chinese Open-Source AI Approaches in Historical Context
• Exclusive - How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
• The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us

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• AI Safety/Security Governance Research Report (2025)
• ChinAI #254
• ChinAI #315
• 2025 Q1 benchmark
• Not Price Alone — Two Inflection Points Behind China’s Robot Vacuum Rise Over iRobot
• Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI
• The Enduring Value of Studying in China — A Conversation with the HNC’s Adam Webb
• Four young Chinese AI industry leaders hold open discussion (in Chinese)

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• ChinAI #333
• After my voice was “stolen” by AI, will I be replaced?
• HEYTEA falls off, DeepSeek Gets Defeated by this Company: Who Won the 2025 Battle of Best Brands?
• AI Safety/Security Governance Research Report (2025)
• China’s Venture Capital Market Emerges from Winter
• The People who Resist AI
• The first state-owned enterprise AI unicorn emerges!
• ChatGPT, is it trying to “cross the river by feeling for the stones” of Ant Afu
• AI Verbally Abuses User, Tencent Yuanbao Responds
• MiniMax went public (in HK) this morning, and its stock price surged by 80%
• Comprehensive Computing Power Index Blue Book (2025)
• ChinAI #159

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China's new regulations matter but not for the reasons you think.

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• An Initial Look at Companion AI Regulatory Pathways — Big Tech Firms are Sleepless
• English translation
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• Nesta essay
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• The Race for Global Domination in AI

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Plus, some AI stories from a Shanghai daily newspaper.

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• AWS resellers
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