China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows(asia.nikkei.com)

94 points by rjzzleep 2 years ago | 85 comments

TSMC, Intel and other top chipmakers slow Japan, Malaysia expansions(asia.nikkei.com)

30 points by pdyc 1 year ago | 11 comments

China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology(economist.com)

40 points by DyslexicAtheist 2 years ago | 30 comments

Mexico building rail rival as water shortages drain Panama Canal(japantimes.co.jp)

74 points by wglb 2 years ago | 73 comments

Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations(niemanlab.org)

152 points by aspenmayer 1 year ago | 68 comments

TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan(apnews.com)

183 points by dev_tty01 8 months ago | 134 comments

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus(cnbc.com)

365 points by yakkomajuri 6 months ago | 260 comments

CNBC news article reporting that China's state planner has blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, asking both companies to withdraw the deal.

China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns(wsj.com)

393 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 374 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that China has told its AI leaders to avoid travel to the U.S. over security concerns; the page showed a captcha.

Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again(finance.yahoo.com)

401 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 211 comments

Bloomberg article syndicated on Yahoo Finance about Japan spending $67 billion in subsidies to rebuild its semiconductor industry.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The AI Race Just Got Awkward(insufferable.dev)

300 points by allisdust 26 days ago | 269 comments

A blog post arguing about the Western vs. Chinese AI lab race, discussing Anthropic's claims that Chinese labs are distilling its models.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.