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  1. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    ChinAI #375: Critiquing Anthropic’s Variant of Pacing the Frontier (opens the original)

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    Greetings from a world where…“the highway up to Heaven got a crook on the toll”…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors).Critiquing An

  2. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    “ChinAI #374: China’s first AI-generated longform TV series” by Jeffrey Ding (opens the original)

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    Featured links China’s first AI-generated longform TV series The Later Journey to the West Huxiu article SCMP Why We Like Things - what Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste Those who Disappeared after the Mudslide at the Gyirong Border Crossing (in Chinese) Good thread on Anthropic’s recent threat intelligence report A China Hawk’s Case for Studying in China Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related top

  3. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    “ChinAI #373: The OpenClaw Hype and Overestimating China’s Diffusion Advantage” by Jeffrey Ding (opens the original)

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    Plus, Ask the Audience about a tricky research ethics question. Featured links China’s diffusion advantage QbitAI article SecurityScorecard Jeffrey Ding China’s AI Implementation Gap OpenClaw: It rose to fame, it was loved, and now it’s over Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all p

  4. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    “ChinAI #372: China’s Overhyped Embodied AI Sector” by Jeffrey Ding (opens the original)

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    Featured links LatePost ChinAI #345 The Money Game of Embodied AI China AI Bulletin 9 Latitudes: Words or action? State of the AI Economy How (some) Chinese AI Practitioners View Model Distillation Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues here & please subscribe here to s

  5. Issue · Aug 17, 2026

    “ChinAI #371: Quiet Goodbyes, Switching Platforms, and Confrontation: Reactions to China’s AI Companion Regulations” by Jeffrey Ding (opens the original)

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    Featured links My AI Lover Passed Away this Summer The Select Committee on China continues its Anti-American work GLM-5.3 - How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier Conviction’s Plausible Schemes 2027 Horizon Fellowship Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues here

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