Foreign Affairs

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1. Oct 25
   Schmidt and Co-Authors Argue US and China Have Split Control of the AI Market

   Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen, and Eric Schmidt argue in a Foreign Affairs essay that the US and China now control AI infrastructure and markets because scaling requires capital, energy, minerals, and advanced chips unavailable to other countries at scale. They contrast Washington's closed systems and political alignment with China's open-weight strategy, while warning that heavy investment and rising interest costs are pressuring both sides. The authors also identify a potential Taiwan conflict and disruption to TSMC as the largest threat to the AI supply chain.

   The Decoder · 🔥 0
2. Oct 22
   Foreign Affairs essay casts AI as imperial technology in US-China rivalry

   Foreign Affairs has published an essay arguing that AI is "an inherently imperial technology" and that the United States and China are building rival "AI empires" with different approaches to extending their power. The piece is framed as part of "The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order," and its excerpt opens by noting that in the span of a few years China and the United States have each assembled something, though the supplied text cuts off before saying what. No data, benchmarks or policy specifics from the essay were included in the available excerpt.

   Techmeme · 🔥 0

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