Frontier AI labs' military usage policies for their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often change, which allows company leadership to preserve “optionality”
I led the Geopolitics Team at OpenAI for approximately three years and then joined two other teams before deciding to leave in June 2025.
Time names “the Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year and examines AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how people interact with the world
😂 — Karma for rigging a war map, or making money on bets with insider knowledge. — An upside of Time's dumb 2025 choice, I suppose. Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : The arrogance of the Tech Br...
A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers
Bloomberg : X: @business . LinkedIn: Russell Ward and Rosalind Mathieson . Forums: r/geopolitics X: @business : Chen Zhi's family office website describes the 37-year-old as a “young business prodigy...
A look at the challenges facing Europe's chip industry, as the EU will likely fail to increase its 10% global chip manufacturing share to a targeted 20% by 2030
including the United States. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... @foreignaffairs : “A purely European supply chain for semiconductors—the sector that undergirds the digital economy and defense sector—...
A profile of Egune AI, a startup building LLMs for the Mongolian language, as it navigates geopolitics, a lack of resources, and the nascent local tech scene
https://restofworld.org/2025/mongolia- egune-ai-llm
Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that some AI chip sales would require a license; Nvidia was blindsided by Trump's curbs on its H20 chips
Investors Ask: Buy or Bail? Yahoo Finance : Why this analyst is ‘confident’ in US-China trade deal for Nvidia TrendForce News : [News] Intel Reportedly Faces New U.S. AI Chip Crackdown on China for Hi...
By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe
How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost — Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.
A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia
and, I think, an indication of how the new Moscow-DC axis will tilt. — www.wired.com/story/russia... @wired.com : His life? A rags-to-riches fairy tale. A lavish wedding, a beautiful wife, five ki...
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
A report on CES 2025: tech giants were mostly absent, Nvidia's keynote was a big event, AI experimentation, supply chains adapting to geopolitics, and more
Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software : X: @iancutress X: @iancutress : A number of people this year saying #CES2025 felt less busy. Personally it felt same as usual, except now with a decade of attend...