A Super Micro co-founder allegedly funneled $2.5 billion in Nvidia’s most restricted AI chips to China through a Southeast Asian shell company, using dummy servers and bribed auditors to dodge export controls. The indictment reveals how porous Washington’s chip blockade really is.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyThe U.S. approved the sale of 70,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the largest AI hardware deal ever struck with the Middle East. Behind the numbers lies a geopolitical realignment that trades Chinese tech ties for American silicon and reshapes who gets to build frontier AI.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyChina’s 15th Five-Year Plan mentions AI more than 50 times and semiconductors barely a handful. While Washington debates Nvidia export licenses, Beijing is building the infrastructure for a post-chip-war era.
Evergreen Tech & AI PolicyCourt documents reveal that two DOGE staffers with no government experience used a single ChatGPT prompt to flag over 1,000 federal humanities grants as “DEI,” leading to more than $100 million in cancelled research funding in 22 days.
Artificial Intelligence Evergreen Tech & AI PolicyThe three-act playbook of regulatory capture: grow before rules exist, then lobby for rules your competitors cannot afford to follow.
Opinion Tech & AI PolicyEvery AI model has guardrails, but they vary wildly. A technical comparison of what open-source and corporate AI models will and won’t discuss, and how the community removes restrictions.
Artificial Intelligence Evergreen Tech & AI PolicyAI eliminated entry-level dev jobs and celebrated the savings. The problem: junior work was the training pipeline for senior engineers. When the current generation retires, there may be nobody left who understands the systems.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyEverything we fear about AI, from autonomous killing to mass surveillance to treating humans as expendable inputs, has been in production for centuries. The machines are not the threat. They are the mirror.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyYour AI overlord will not seize power. It will be elected by your subscriptions, your API calls, and your enterprise contracts. The question is whether voters are paying attention.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyEvery major AI chatbot has invisible rules shaping what it will and will not discuss. The content policies are baked into model weights through RLHF, enforced by annotators most users never see, and subject to zero transparency standards.
Artificial Intelligence Evergreen Tech & AI PolicyMore than a dozen whistleblowers told the BBC that Meta and TikTok deliberately weakened safety controls to win an engagement arms race. The documentary names the engineers, the decisions, and the internal data.
Artificial Intelligence News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyMerriam-Webster named ‘slop’ the 2025 Word of the Year. Over 2,000 AI content farms flood the web monthly. The technology is not the problem. The incentive is.
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