Economic Warfare: A History
Today we’re releasing part one of our a two-part conversation with Nick Mulder, a history professor at Cornell and author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War — a Fore...
3 Maalis 20231h 17min
How does AI actually work, anyways?
Data scientist Bryan Cheong breaks down how AI actually works, creating video using AI and how the technology is being used beyond image and language models. Also, I've got a meetup March 7th in Palo ...
2 Maalis 202349min
Will Xi Give Putin Arms? Has A Cold War Already Begun?
Today we’re going to do a show about the scariest US-China news story I’ve seen in years, that “The US has intelligence that the Chinese government is considering providing Russia with drones and ammu...
28 Helmi 202346min
AI's Regulatory Future in the US, China, and EU
With AI on the verge of transforming the world, how are regulators across the globe approaching the challenges the technology might pose? Also, what does US-China AI collaboration look like today, and...
20 Helmi 202355min
BalloonTalk: Alien Valentine Edition
William 'Balloon Guy' Kim returns for a roundup of the past few days of news around the Chinese spy balloon and unidentified object shooting. We share our favorite theories of what on earth is going o...
15 Helmi 202337min
Mechanical Keyboards in China （中文版）
Hey ChinaTalk listeners, this year we’re going to do something new—occasional episodes in Mandarin! While getting mainland guests to talk about more conventional topics like US-China relations and exp...
12 Helmi 202349min
How YOU Can Change S&T Policy
How does one organization turn expert knowledge into real policy change? Dan Correa, CEO of the Federation of American Scientists and Founder of the Day One Project, discusses the power of policy entr...
10 Helmi 202341min
Tech Policy Entrepreneurship + Chips Act + Talent Policy
What do we talk about when we talk about tech policy? What are the weird corners of the chips and science bill? How is talent policy broken and what can anyone do about it? And broadly, if you want to...
8 Helmi 202348min
