Tag: global affairs
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By revenue, TSMC is the largest semiconductor company in the world. In 2020 it quietly joined the world’s 10 most valuable companies. It’s now bigger than Meta and Exxon. The… more ›
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As Xi Jinping visits Vladimir Putin in Russia this week, this episode of Chinese Whispers is returning to one of the missions of this podcast series – to look at… more ›
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Globalization is not the only—or even the real—story of the global economy over the past four decades. In The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter, Shannon K. O’Neil shows that the… more ›
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But there is a reason we’ve taken a step back at Stability AI and chose not to release version 1.5 as quickly as we released earlier checkpoints. https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai more ›
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The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture — by blockbuster movies like “The Terminator” and their doomsday scenarios of machines going rogue and destroying… more ›
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New U.S. Export Controls on AI and Semiconductors Mark a Transformation of U.S. Technology Competition with China Introduction On October 7, 2022, the Biden administration announced a new export controls… more ›
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Gamification — the use of ideas from game design for purposes beyond entertainment — is everywhere. It’s in our smartwatches, cajoling us to walk an extra thousand steps for a… more ›
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Over eighty years ago, the rise of synthetic polymers led to one of the most successful original products ever. This product used nothing that we would consider to be technology… more ›