The United Arab Emirates will host a significant portion of OpenAI's Stargate project, including an eventual 5-gigawatt data center.

China has struggled to build a wide-body airplane, despite likely possessing stolen CAD files from Boeing, because it lacks the tacit knowledge embedded in the manufacturing process.

The Dubai Electric Water Authority (DEWA) is vertically integrated with local data center development and has 19 gigawatts of installed electricity capacity.

Sam Hammond assigns a greater than 50% likelihood that current Large Language Models possess some form of inner life or consciousness.

Estonia has a "government as API" model that allows citizens to view logs of who has accessed their personal data.

China is rapidly building semiconductor fabrication plants for legacy nodes, which could be sufficient to close the AI gap if it has the energy capacity to compensate for lower performance per token.

According to Elon Musk, by the end of the year, there will be a surplus of AI chips that cannot be powered on due to energy and infrastructure bottlenecks for large-scale data centers.

A pure software singularity could cause a reversal of fortunes for the U.S. by devaluing its comparative advantage in knowledge sectors, allowing China to more effectively translate U.S. innovations i...

Sam Hammond assesses the current U.S. administration's performance on AI policy as a "B+", citing a strong AI action plan and the centrality of AI to its agenda.