Is Using a Chatbot an Export? Washington's New Theory Says It Can Be
The order that froze Anthropic's top models rests on an untested legal claim: that simply using a cloud-hosted AI counts as a technology transfer. Trade lawyers call it a can of worms, warning any customer must now assume any model could be cut off at any time. Abroad, the gambit may already be backfiring.
Read full story →The World Has Decided China Is Winning the AI Race. Trust Is Another Matter.
A 15-country poll finds most people now believe China leads the US on AI, even in Canada, Britain and France. But ask whose models they actually trust with their data and the ranking flips, with Japan on top and China splitting the room. The gap between admiration and trust is the real story.
Read full story →To Prove a Point About AI, a Microsoft Researcher Built One Out of Goats
Inside Age of Empires II, with grass for zeros and goats for bits, Adrian de Wynter built a working neural network. The joke is the argument: half the computer science papers he reviewed assumed machines think like us. Strip away the fluent language, he says, and the illusion goes with it.
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