So is "democratic AI" deployed in an authoritarian country supposed to make that country more democratic?

Or will it be the other way around...?

There *is* one, and only one, upside to Trump running for a 3rd term

Washington Post -> People’s Daily

In the Chinese open source community, there is this thing that I would call open source "zeal" or "calling" (开源情怀)

Two weeks ago, RedNote topped the download chart

Today, it's DeepSeek

We are still in January

If constraint is the mother of invention, then collective ignorance is the mother of many downloads

Thought @kevinxu.bsky.social's breakdown of Deepseek was the best starting point (and three weeks before the discourse, that's alpha) interconnect.substack.com/p/deepseeks-...

With TikTok blackout imminent, the app that shot to the top of the chart is...not IG, not YT, not Snap, but RED!

The irony is so rich in this one I don't even know where to start...

(Oh also, Lemon8 is another ByteDance app)

Thank you!

Since no one has time to sit through an entire Trump presser, here's what he said yesterday re US-China, with context:

[context: the lead-in was Trump saying he did not invite Zelensky to the inauguration, then was asked whether he was disappointed that Xi will not be at the inauguration]

On Lawfare Daily, Kevin Frazier talked to @kevinxu.bsky.social about China’s AI ambitions, its current AI capacities, the likely effect of updated export controls on the nation’s AI efforts, and the different AI development strategies being deployed by the U.S. and China.

Awww thank you for the shoutout Jeremy!

Oh and hello Blue Sky, first time here!

While we are here, some top takeaways on this piece I wrote

I spent many weeks researching the story of Robin Zeng and CATL--the powerful and politically divisive battery maker that is now #1 globally in market share