The United States is simply too internally divided to engage in the sort of far-seeing, purposeful, smart kind of international competition that we pursued so effectively in the 20th century. Americans care more about fighting other Americans than about fighting the Chinese, and that state of affairs will persist for a while.

Noah Smith

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rising discontent across Chinese social media is not necessarily a reflection of the limits of that aforementioned censorship, but possibly a window into how the Party manages social malaise.

Ben Thompson

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It did not take much time using the product for us to begin taking large language models and the companies building them extremely seriously. Four months into our run, my cohost's long conversation with an unhinged version of Microsoft Bing captivated the world and brought AI safety discussions into the mainstream. (It also drew a fair amount of ridicule, previewing the ways in which the commentariat would continually twist itself into pretzels to deny that anything important was happening with LLMs.)

Casey Newton

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