Tag: global affairs

• The Overwhelming 2024-Ness of It All

  March 6, 2024

  In so many ways, 2024 feels like an inflection point — one of those years that carries within it a future yet unformed. The U.S. election is of course the… more ›

• How do you say Trade War in German?

  May 11, 2023

  There has been a lot of news about China’s Electric Vehicle (EV) industry lately, or more precisely statistics, and we think it is going to lead to greater trade issues… more ›

• As Tides Rise, Tuvalu Faces a Future on the Metaverse

  April 9, 2023

  While the lost continent of Atlantis was the 19th century’s submarine fantasy and the drowning city of Venice the 20th’s reality check, the tiny Pacific island-nation of Tuvalu is on… more ›

• I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory

  March 26, 2023

  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 ›

• What Beijing wants out of the Russian invasion

  March 25, 2023

  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 ›

• 9/11 Forever

  March 19, 2023

  There are four key legacies of 9/11. First, it radically changed our understanding of war. Second, it launched the surveillance state and narrowed our conception of privacy. Third, it elevated… more ›

• The Globalization Myth

  October 23, 2022

  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 ›

• Why the Future of Open Source AI is So Much Bigger Than Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Why It Matters to You

  October 23, 2022

  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 ›

• The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence

  October 16, 2022

  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 ›

• Choking Off China’s Access to the Future of AI

  October 16, 2022

  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 ›