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China has subverted the AI race

Representatives of the largest American artificial intelligence laboratories met in the White House on August 4. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta...

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Geoffrey Cain

America’s lead over China in the AI race is fragile

Representatives of the largest American artificial intelligence laboratories met in the White House on August 4. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta...

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Geoffrey Cain

China understands The Odyssey better than we do

China will inherit Homer, and not because the Communist party has decided to take him. The evidence arrived last week in Beijing, where a doctoral...

05.08.2026 20

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Geoffrey Cain

Meet the political donors lining up to influence AI policy

Most Americans have yet to work out quite what they think about artificial intelligence, but already the AI game is under way: the buying and placing...

01.08.2026 20

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Geoffrey Cain

Tech barons / The Founding Fathers of AI

In the spring of 1722, a 16-year-old apprentice in a Boston print shop began slipping letters under the door at night, signed by a middle-aged widow...

01.07.2026 10

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Geoffrey Cain

The Founding Fathers of AI

In the spring of 1722, a 16-year-old apprentice in a Boston print shop began slipping letters under the door at night, signed by a middle-aged widow...

29.06.2026 10

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Geoffrey Cain

America’s Anthropic blackout won’t make the world safer

For the first time, the United States government has switched off frontier artificial intelligence and forced the world to go without it. Two of the...

19.06.2026 30

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Geoffrey Cain

Power trip / The three things Trump wants from his China trip

Donald Trump flew to Beijing this week, and when he sits down with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning he will want three things: a...

14.05.2026 20

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Geoffrey cain

Will Trump and Xi get what they want?

Donald Trump flew to Beijing this week and wants three things when he sits down with China’s President Xi Jinping: a tariff truce that survives his...

14.05.2026 40

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Power trip / The three things Trump wants from his China trip

Donald Trump flew to Beijing this week, and when he sits down with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning he will want three things: a...

13.05.2026 30

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Johnny Apple / Why Apple’s new CEO will play it safe

When Apple named its next chief executive last month it did so without ceremony. Tim Cook will become executive chairman on September 1; John Ternus,...

09.05.2026 30

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Why Apple’s new CEO will play it safe

When Apple named its next chief executive last month it did so without ceremony. Tim Cook will become executive chairman on September 1; John Ternus,...

07.05.2026 30

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Arming the dragon

The West’s technology brains and universities are arming China. A few of them are potentially breaking the law to do it, but most of them don’t...

09.04.2026 40

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The greater game: Trump’s ultimate target in this war is China

The United States and Israel killed Ayatollah Khamenei, and Xi Jinping’s decade-long project to build an alternative to the American-led order died...

05.03.2026 30

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