geopolitics
Policy & Regulation
US-China AI Standards Competition: Hardware Independence vs AGI Race
China builds independent AI chip ecosystem around Huawei Ascend while the US leverages Nvidia dominance. How the standards war reshapes global AI development.
Policy & Regulation
AI Chip Export Bans 2026: Who Can Buy What and Why It Matters
The Most Consequential Trade Policy You Have Never Heard Of On October 7, 2022, the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued export control regulations that sent shockwaves through the global technology industry. The regulations restricted the export of advanced
Policy & Regulation
The Global AI Governance Race: Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and Why It Matters
The world's most important geopolitical competition of the 21st century is not being waged on battlefields or at sea. It is being waged in research laboratories, data centers, government corridors, and international standards bodies — and the outcome will determine who shapes
AI & Automation
The China-US AI Race: How DeepSeek and Open-Source Models Are Reshaping the Industry
The DeepSeek Shock On January 20, 2025, a Chinese AI lab called DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1 — a reasoning model that matched OpenAI's o1 on key benchmarks, ran at roughly 95% lower inference cost, and was released as open-weight software under the MIT License. The reaction
