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The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam’s chip industry Vietnamese chip component suppliers are responding to growing market demands for products with no...
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Noahpinion
Xi Jinping is the main thing holding China back If the Chinese Century underwhelms, it'll be partly due to a single man.
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Noahpinion
MAGA doesn't build anything Why I think this political movement isn't going anywhere in the long term.
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Saudi Aramco wants a Google spinoff to turn its waste into wealth The world’s biggest crude producer is partnering with SandboxAQ to turn captured carbon into...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI? Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI...
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Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI Project" was now setting a "more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end." To quote: A $500 billion effort unveiled at the White
Noahpinion
Should Democrats go back to neoliberalism? To some degree, yes. But what they really need is a development state.
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Unleashing the AI jobs revolution in Africa While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help...
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While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help create jobs that never existed before.
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Nickel workers powered the EV battery boom. Now, layoffs have hit. Indonesia dominates the EV nickel supply chain. But prices are falling, threatening workers in...
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BYD distracted the world while Chinese EV peers staged a coup Even as BYD grabs headlines, a pack of Chinese automakers is quietly conquering overseas markets...
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Even as BYD grabs headlines, a pack of Chinese automakers is quietly conquering overseas markets with aggressive pricing and localization.
Noahpinion
The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan It was always bound to happen.
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Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be...
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Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be shaped by who builds the bigger model but by small systems designed to resolve real-world problems.
Noahpinion
Stop pretending you know what AI does to the economy Alarmism is everywhere, but a lot of it is just brainworms.
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AI and immigration uncertainty threaten Nigeria’s dreams of becoming an outsourcing hot spot The West African nation wants to become the next global outsourcing hub, but as AI takes over basic...
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The West African nation wants to become the next global outsourcing hub, but as AI takes over basic tech tasks and U.S. visa hurdles rise, replicating India’s success could be challenging.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Bad Policy edition (#67) ICE backlash; progressive bumbling; antisocial Americans; bad inflation data; the Roaring 20s; AI...
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ICE backlash; progressive bumbling; antisocial Americans; bad inflation data; the Roaring 20s; AI politics; China vs. America
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Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide EV adoption by major platforms is at low single digits as infrastructure gaps and costs derail...
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Tesla finally enters India after a decade of false starts Elon Musk’s electric car company debuts its luxury strategy in the world’s third-largest auto...
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Noahpinion
Trump is enabling Chinese power An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to...
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An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to China's rise.
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Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better...
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Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.
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TikTok’s messy merger in Indonesia could be a preview of what’s to come in the U.S. A year after merging with local giant Tokopedia, TikTok’s business model is alienating sellers,...
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Noahpinion
Developing countries: A follow-up Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.
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Working Theorys
Encore Anxiety Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing...
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Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.
Noahpinion
Why tariffs haven't raised inflation much (yet) Three possible explanations.
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Struggling Chinese EV brands go global to flee brutal price war at home Backlash against Neta Auto in Thailand underscores risks of companies expanding abroad too soon.
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Noahpinion
Free-market economics is working surprisingly well Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.
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Politics and USAID cuts put a telehealth program on life support Despite poor internet and power cuts, Bangladesh’s telehealth service connected rural residents to...
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Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business...
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Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.
Steve Blank
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises...
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How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive...
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Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many...
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In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many locals feel left out — and some have turned to stealing.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: It Isn't That Bad edition (#66) U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial...
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U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial crisis; macroeconomics vs. microeconomics;
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Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled Despite having 500 million users in India, WhatsApp couldn’t crack the country’s $3 trillion fintech...
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Noahpinion
How to take our country back The America you grew up in is under attack from technologies that we ourselves invented.
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Noahpinion
The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis A repost from the Noahpinion archives, with a few updates.
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Nothing Human
To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
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What we’re reading: Rest of World’s summer book list Spanning subjects from Apple to Nvidia to OpenAI, here are six compelling books on technology, tech...
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Spanning subjects from Apple to Nvidia to OpenAI, here are six compelling books on technology, tech leaders, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence.
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Brazil wants to be a sustainable data center hub. Environmentalists are skeptical The country recently announced its national data center policy, despite worries that new investments...
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Taiwan is creating an offshore wind industry to fuel its semiconductor factories The island’s offshore wind ambitions are creating a new class of cable engineers.
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Noahpinion
We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
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Steve Blank
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve...
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Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI...
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The hidden labor that makes AI work Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book,...
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Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender examine the hype behind artificial intelligence in their new book, The AI Con. Below is an excerpt on the invisible labor behind some AI tools.
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Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming...
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As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.
Noahpinion
Jewish Americans are feeling unsettled Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his...
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Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I
Noahpinion
Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars? Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.
2 months ago
Nothing Human
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
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Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.
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Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts A new regulation from the Supreme Court holds Meta, X, and other online platforms accountable for...
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A new regulation from the Supreme Court holds Meta, X, and other online platforms accountable for content and user safety, setting Brazil on a collision course with the Trump administration.
Noahpinion
The dawn of the posthuman age Between new technology and low fertility, our existence as a species is not going to be the same.
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You can just do things – Creating a pan-European legal entity, the right way First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news:...
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First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!
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Taking Blogging Seriously It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies...
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It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.
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India’s EV king stumbles as rivals ignite a new kind of price war Tata Motors sees its EV market share plunge. A fierce battle for affordable, feature-packed cars is...
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Tata Motors sees its EV market share plunge. A fierce battle for affordable, feature-packed cars is heating up, defining India’s unique path in the global EV race.