Asia Power Snapshot: China, the United States, and the race for AI dominance
The piece asks who is winning the AI race between the United States and China. It says the answer depends on what is measured.
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AI & International Politics — what each story says
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8 stories5 with summaries3 topics
🇺🇸 US–China rivalry5
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang Rejects Anthropic’s Total China Chip Ban Push, Says “I Completely Disagree” And Believes “America Is About Competition”
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls for a total ban on AI chips for China. He said America is about global competition.
Read the original →The US is winning the MENA AI race, but don’t count China out
MENA nations are wary of being too dependent on the US for such critical technology.
Read the original →Empty offices, ties to blacklisted firms: Inside the Chinese companies the US cleared for Nvidia chips
The approvals raise questions about how rigorously the Trump administration is policing who can obtain the chips.
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- Plugged in, not locked in: middle powers navigate US-China AI rivalrySouth China Morning Post · 11/08 09:09 UTC
🤝 Diplomacy, summits and alliances1
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- Kazakhstan Hosts Aqaba Process Summit on AI Security in Astanacaspiannews.com · 11/08 15:50 UTC
🛡️ Security and the military2
Investigation Finds Chinese Military-Linked Firms Somehow Gained Approval To Assemble NVIDIA H200 AI GPUs, Highlighting A Half-Baked U.S. Approval System
An investigation revealed that the Commerce Department cleared Chinese shell companies with empty offices and military ties to handle NVIDIA H200 AI accelerators.
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- Macron-backed AI giant targets British defence workThe Telegraph · 11/08 14:02 UTC
The analysis and visual summary are in the Nov 9 AM issue. Japanese version here.