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Vincent Chow

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🔮 How Democratic sweep could slow AI growth in US – and help China’s ambitions Democrats’ congressional victory fuels expectations of tighter scrutiny of AI and the data centres that power it The assessment comes as concerns about AI and the data centres that power it proved to be a contributing factor in the backlash against the Republican Party and US President Donald Trump, a vocal supporter of the tech industry.

2026-11-04 · speculative framing · How Democratic sweep could slow AI growth in US – and help China’s ambitions

🔮 DeepSeek engineer defends push for open-source AI smarter than humans despite higher risks Some AI pioneers have warned that AGI may escape human control DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying growing safety concerns from the US and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks.

2026-11-04 · mixed framing · DeepSeek engineer defends push for open-source AI smarter than humans despite higher risks

🔮 safety is key: Z.ai founder Tang says RSI represents a ‘new paradigm’ of R&D that will accelerate AI development even more than it has been The remarks underscore how AI companies in the US and China are both chasing the holy grail of recursive self-improvement (RSI), where increasingly powerful AI systems also become better at improving themselves in an ever-accelerating “loop”.

2026-11-01 · assertive framing · Self-improving AI the key step towards AGI but safety is key: Z.ai founder

🔮 Predicting that AI advances would develop even faster, Chen proposed a universal “ethics checker” that all leading AI models would need to satisfy, citing the systems developed by Chinese companies DeepSeek and ByteDance as well as American start-up OpenAI.

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · As AI cyber risks grow, Chinese chip expert urges shared ethics standards with US rivals

🔮 Trump rejects calls to work with China on AI safety despite Xi summit progress US president won’t collaborate with Beijing to govern AI as it would make it harder for American companies to get ahead in global tech race “Whoever wins superintelligence wins.

2026-09-29 · assertive framing · Trump rejects calls to work with China on AI safety despite Xi summit progress

🔮 A foreign ministry spokesperson did not say if China would adopt Trump’s preferred term for artificial intelligence but respects the choice of the term US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rebrand of artificial intelligence (AI) — and looking to get the world’s other AI superpower, China, on board.

2026-09-26 · assertive framing · Amid many thorny issues with China, Trump pushes to rename AI as superintelligence

🔮 China’s growing semiconductor self-reliance may explain the relative calm, but looming US measures could put it to the test There is little question that Jensen Huang and Lisa Su, the heads of US semiconductor chip giants Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), had secured two of the best seats in the house at the White House state dinner on Thursday evening: at the head table alongside the two presidents and their wives.

2026-09-26 · mixed framing · Why US chip controls took a back seat at the Xi-Trump summit

🔮 More than 80 questions sought to uncover potential biases in the landmark criminal case against the Chinese tech giant Known as voir dire, the process allows the presiding judge and two legal teams to question prospective jurors before the trial begins to identify possible bias and conflicts that could impede their ability to adjudicate the case in a “fair and impartial” way.

2026-09-15 · mixed framing · Huawei’s US trial puts jury to the test amid China, Iran links

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Chong Ming Lee

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🔮 Managing digital workers As businesses race to build AI workforces, supervising them is becoming the next big challenge When artificial intelligence agents first arrived, they came with a tantalising promise: autonomous “digital workers” that would finally free humans from corporate drudgery.

2026-10-18 · assertive framing · The AI promise was automation. The reality? Managing digital workers

🔮 If the claims are true, Beijing’s main concern would not be intellectual property theft or model copying, but data security, says one analyst Did Chinese AI companies secretly tap US models to close the technology gap?

2026-10-09 · mixed framing · Anthropic claims Chinese AI firms secretly use Claude. Is it true?

🔮 One Hong Kong-based user posted on the “r/claude” subreddit that they received an email from Anthropic’s safeguards team citing “suspicious signals” associated with their account, which would be revoked for usage policy violations.

2026-10-02 · assertive framing · Hong Kong users caught offguard as Anthropic tightens VPN access to Claude

🔮 The acquisition, expected to close by the end of this year, would integrate World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD, according to an announcement on Monday.

2026-09-29 · assertive framing · AMD acquires ‘godmother of AI’ Li Fei-Fei’s start-up as battle with Nvidia intensifies

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