EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls
Chris Miller (chip wars), Chris McGuire (10 year State Dpt vet, check out the past episode on the feed) and I discuss a big move by MOFCOM to squeeze Trump in advance of their APEC summit. Outtro ...
9 Okt 202557min
AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia
Last week, Jensen Huang said that China is “nanoseconds behind” the US in chipmaking. Is he right? Today, Chris McGuire joins ChinaTalk for a US-China AI hardware net assessment. Chris spent a decade ...
8 Okt 20251h 28min
Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs
Bryan Clark, a former submariner now with the Hudson Institute, joins the show! Outtro speech: George C. Scott's rendition of Patton's speech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
6 Okt 20251h 1min
RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking
At long last, Jeff Alstott, the fairy godfather of DC AI policy, joins the show. He’s the founding director for RAND’s center for technology and security policy, TASP, worked at NSC, NSF and IARPA, an...
3 Okt 20251h 7min
Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (our dumbest show yet)
for better or worse, the first ep on chinatalk feed I had to put an explicit tag on... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 Okt 202551min
Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence
Anthony Vinci, former CTO of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and author of the upcoming book The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, joins as Second Breakfast's first ever guest. Outtro Mu...
29 Sep 20251h 23min
Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater
Jasmine Sun of https://jasmi.news/ and Nathan Lambert of https://www.interconnects.ai/ discuss a wide variety of topics of interest around AI and culture. Outtro Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
25 Sep 20251h 11min
Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers
back at it again Outtro Music: Boys of the Old Brigade, Wolf Tones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoQBXgbVVT4&ab_channel=rebelsongs Book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/child-soldiers-in-th...
19 Sep 20251h 7min
