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Liza Lin

@lizalinwsj
39 posts
2024-07-16
1/ Where is China in the global GenAI race? We look into what China is doing to catch up with U.S. tech giants. Here's what we found: https://www.wsj.com/... https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-07-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China's CAC requires AI companies to prepare between 20K and 70K questions designed to test whether their AI models produce safe answers before release

and Risks Strangling It. Government support helps China's generative AI companies gain ground on U.S. competitors, but political controls threaten to weigh them down. @lizalinwsj h...

2/ China is turning to an old playbook to catch up: a top-down approach and heavy state involvement.
2024-07-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China's CAC requires AI companies to prepare between 20K and 70K questions designed to test whether their AI models produce safe answers before release

and Risks Strangling It. Government support helps China's generative AI companies gain ground on U.S. competitors, but political controls threaten to weigh them down. @lizalinwsj h...

5/ Lack of mandarin training data is also an issue: Less than 5% of the data in Common Crawl, a widely used open-source database used to train ChatGPT in its early days, is Chinese-language data.
2024-07-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China's CAC requires AI companies to prepare between 20K and 70K questions designed to test whether their AI models produce safe answers before release

and Risks Strangling It. Government support helps China's generative AI companies gain ground on U.S. competitors, but political controls threaten to weigh them down. @lizalinwsj h...

3/ U.S. export controls block Beijing from acquiring high end chips needed for training algorithms. So at least 16 local governments, including Beijing and Hangzhou have pooled together scarce supplies of these chips to build state-run data centers to offer such processing power.
2024-07-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China's CAC requires AI companies to prepare between 20K and 70K questions designed to test whether their AI models produce safe answers before release

and Risks Strangling It. Government support helps China's generative AI companies gain ground on U.S. competitors, but political controls threaten to weigh them down. @lizalinwsj h...

2022-11-29
13/ People can only guess the reason for this breathing room, and these revolve around assuming the speed and intensity of the protests caught censors offguard. Our story: https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-11-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images

Wall Street Journal :

2022-11-28
1/ At 2pm on Monday, this Douyin user put up a video with images of blank white printing paper, with the caption: “I heard this item would be out of stock recently. #A4 #WhitePaper #coronavirus #freedom” — how China tried to censor protest videos. W/@_KarenHao https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-28 View on X
Washington Post

Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team

For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated

1/ At 2pm on Monday, this Douyin user put up a video with images of blank white printing paper, with the caption: “I heard this item would be out of stock recently. #A4 #WhitePaper #coronavirus #freedom” — how China tried to censor protest videos. W/@_KarenHao https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images

Protesters are using few or no words in public and online demonstrations to speak out against Beijing's zero-Covid policies

2022-11-27
The U.S. FCC voted 4-0 to ban sales of new surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies including Hikvision and Dahua, arguing that their ownership and practices threaten U.S. national security. https://www.wsj.com/... via @DrewFitzGerald @WSJ
2022-11-27 View on X
Bloomberg

The FCC imposes a ban on equipment from Huawei and ZTE, camera providers Hikvision and Dahua, and radio maker Hytera, citing “a risk to national security”

US regulators imposed a ban on electronic equipment from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., continuing a years-long effort …

2022-10-17
1/ The impact of U.S. chip export controls towards China is more human than tech: @WSJ combed thru corporate filings to identify 43 American senior executives in 16 listed Chinese chip firms. They now have to chose between their citizenship & for some, the startups they founded.
2022-10-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

New US export controls may affect 43+ senior executives at 16 public chip companies in China, forcing them to choose between their US citizenship and their jobs

At least 43 senior executives working with 16 listed Chinese semiconductor companies hold roles from CEO to vice president

2/ Many in China's chip space expected limits on semiconductors and equipment, what caught most off guard was the policy restricting “US persons” from supporting and developing China's advanced chip industry. (w/@_KarenHao) https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-10-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

New US export controls may affect 43+ senior executives at 16 public chip companies in China, forcing them to choose between their US citizenship and their jobs

At least 43 senior executives working with 16 listed Chinese semiconductor companies hold roles from CEO to vice president

2022-05-30
China has always been a bright spot for the world's smartphone market. Many Chinese live their lives on their phone. But not this year. From Apple to TSMC, companies warn of fewer shipments, weaker spending and a ripple effect on the economy. @yoyominnie https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-05-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Chinese government data: smartphone shipments in the country fell 30% YoY to ~86M units in the first four months of 2022 amid the resurgence of COVID-19

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal :

2022-05-29
China has always been a bright spot for the world's smartphone market. Many Chinese live their lives on their phone. But not this year. From Apple to TSMC, companies warn of fewer shipments, weaker spending and a ripple effect on the economy. @yoyominnie https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-05-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 30% YoY to ~86M units in the first four months of 2022 amid the resurgence of COVID-19 in China

From Apple to chip makers, companies warn of fewer shipments and weaker consumer spending in the world's biggest smartphone market

2022-03-30
@WSJ Exclusive: China is planning new restrictions on its live streaming industry, as authorities seek to limit the negative values and impact from the sector. w/@QiZHAI Here's what its planning, and why: https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-03-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship

Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps

4/ Here's a brief explainer on how virtual tipping works. Live streaming hosts stream to an audience, and they can buy virtual gifts for their favorite host. This is Kuaishou's gift page. Here, gifts run the gamut from 10 yuan for a virtual “beer” to $300 for a “temple of love” https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship

Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps

5/ Since live streaming took off in China 7-8 years back, it's spawned into a massive $30 bln industry. Livestreamers make money by selling products and taking commissions, sponsorships or by taking a cut of these tips. Chinese firms Kuaishou, Huya, Douyin rely on it for revenue.
2022-03-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship

Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps

9/ On Mar 15, during an annual CCTV consumer day gala, authorities called out the deceptive practice of companies showcasing young female livestreamers to solicit expensive gifts from male viewers. The hosts had male assistants helping to chat the fans up. https://www.sohu.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship

Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps

3/ Sources say Chinese officials want to impose a daily limit on the amount that internet users can “tip” their favorite livestream hosts, through virtual gifts and red packets. Similarly they want to cap the amount of tips a livestreamer can receive daily.
2022-03-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship

Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps

2/ China's livestreaming industry is powered by two growth engines. One is livestreaming ecommerce and another is the world of livestreaming virtual tipping. The new regulations plan to clampdown on the tipping.
2022-03-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its huge live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tighter content censorship

Regulators are planning rules limiting virtual tipping of live-streaming hosts and time spent by young people on the apps

2022-02-28
Great @AP piece. TikTok is the only major social media platform that disinformation researchers have not been able to crack and figure out how inauthentic activity works. https://apnews.com/...
2022-02-28 View on X
Associated Press

How Russia is trying to use social media platforms to stir up anti-Ukraine sentiment by spreading propaganda, disinformation, and discord online

The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat.  It's cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda.

Great @AP piece. TikTok is the only major social media platform that disinformation researchers have not been able to crack and figure out how inauthentic activity works. https://apnews.com/...
2022-02-28 View on X
NBC News

Meta and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and the other to Belarus

Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukrainian “covert influence operations” over the weekend, one tied to Russia and another with connections to Belarus, the companies said.