'Face Off: The U.S. vs China' - new podcast by Jane Perlez that covers a whole range of issues on US-China relations. I love this trailer, which starts out with an incident that happened when I was a green reporter, the 2001 spy plane incident. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fac…

'The stricter govt procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options.'

The fact that this has been a policy goal since ~2014 shows how hard this actually is ft.com/content/7bf0f7…

Ryan McMorrow FT: 'The stricter government procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options. It runs alongside a…localisation drive under way in state-owned enterprises.'
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IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! To celebrate, (1) my kids are taking in Code Dependent for show-and-tell (all publicity is good publicity..) and (2) I am spending all day writing about AI giants and power, which is perfect. Here it is, in amongst my bookshelf chaos. tinyurl.com/3x3jdb4z

On Halloween 2018, a London detective investigating a Chinese takeaway worker stumbled on billions of pounds worth of bitcoin in a Hampstead mansion ft.com/content/0bc35b…

My and Eri Sugiura's long read on an extraordinary tale of crime, crypto and a woman in way over her head

FT: 'Soon after leaving, he was put under surveillance by Pinduoduo. A subsequent labour arbitration case means he now owes the Chinese tech giant around double the amount he earned during his year of working there.'
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“They gave us a deadline…to stop using iPhones…They didn’t give us any subsidies, instead one day Huawei people came into our office with boxes of phones to sell, all 20 per cent off…Our whole building was fighting to get the phones.”
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Ex-workers at Temu owner PDD suffer surveillance and financial ruin over non-competes ft.com/content/d40cd7… via @ft

Chinese city governments are offering 'computing vouchers', worth $140K to $280K, to AI startups, to help create a level playing field with China's tech giants (Financial Times)

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Just what the world needs -- a big local Chinese government offering support for China's already booming auto exports ...

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SCOOP - McKinsey website touted its advice to Chinese government ministries (Stephen Foley Ryan McMorrow)
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Never would have thought McKinsey helped lay the blueprint for 'Made in China 2025'

They claim the think tank behind the policy ideas is 'not McKinsey' -- it just happened to be run out of their Beijing office. Great reporting Stephen Foley Sun Yu

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'McKinsey's think-tank advised #China to deepen coop'n bt business & the military & push foreign cos out of sensitive industries as part of its project for Beijing in 2015'

This is MIND-BLOWING. McKinsey is literally the godfather of Made-in-China 2025.

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Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain cofounder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulation, Big Tech, and Biden's EO (Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times)

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OpenAI and Microsoft say it's against their rules to use their GPT APIs to build a competing AI model.

It turns out that ByteDance has been doing exactly that to build its own LLM in China. As a person with firsthand knowledge of the situation put it, “They say they want to…

I read Minnie Chan's reporting regularly. This is concerning.

Extraordinarily good reporting here from Qian'er Liu of the Financial Times. Includes lots of new details not publicly available elsewhere. ft.com/content/327414…

US uncovers plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil. Warns India about concerns over possible government involvement before Canadian PM Trudeau says India possibly linked to murder of another Sikh in Vancouver.

holy wow, looks like Sam Altman was fired by OpenAI's board for withholding information from it

CTO Mira Murati now the interim CEO while they search for a permanent successor

full statement here: openai.com/blog/openai-an…