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How Tech Titans Clash Over China’s Future

The AI Chip Feud: When Lobsters and Baby Bumps Steal the Spotlight Let’s set the scene: Two tech titans, Nvidia and Anthropic, are locked in a public showdown over artificial intelligence. One company sells the “ brains ” of AI systems; the other builds the AI itself. Their disagreement?  The Lobster Crate Dilemma: Can Export Controls Secure AI’s Future? Whether the U.S. government should tighten restrictions on selling advanced AI chips to China. The twist? Claims of smugglers hiding chips in prosthetic baby bumps and crates of live lobsters . Yes, you read that right. Chips, Lobsters, and the Invisible Arms Race Imagine you’re baking a cake. Without flour, you’ve got nothing but a sad bowl of empty ambition. Now replace “flour” with “AI chips” - specifically, Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, the gold standard for training cutting-edge AI models. These chips are the secret sauce behind everything from chatbots that write poetry to self-driving cars. Without them, even the brightest AI mind...

The Great Brain Race: Two Nations, One Cloud, and a Whole Lot of Artificial Drama

The US and China are locked in another technological arms race, and this time it's all about who can create the smartest artificial brain first. It's like watching two kids fighting over who can build the tallest LEGO tower, except instead of plastic bricks, they're playing with something that might eventually outsmart us all.  No pressure! The Great Brain Race: Two Nations, One Cloud, and a Whole Lot of Artificial Drama Let me tell you about this absolutely brilliant plan the US has cooked up. They want to launch a "Manhattan Project-style initiative" for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).  Because apparently, the first Manhattan Project worked out so wonderfully for everyone involved that we thought, "Hey, why not do that again, but with computers that can think?" I mean, what could possibly go wrong? The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (try saying that three times fast) has come up with 32 recommendations. Thirty-two! Because a...