Kinling Lo

China is pushing back on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s attempt to rewrite the rules of artificial intelligence. Earlier this month, Amodei called for the global AI industry to slow the development of its most powerful models, arguing that the pause would b... See more

Saudi Arabia celebrated the launch of what it calls the world’s most advanced Arabic-language AI model earlier this month. The technology behind it came from China even as the kingdom spends billions building its AI infrastructure with American companies.... See more

Artificial intelligence tokens — once a term familiar only to techies — are rapidly entering everyday life in China. Banks, cafes, and telcos, among other small and big businesses, are offering free AI tokens as incentives to attract more customers. Some ... See more

In the spring of 2020, a Taiwanese engineer felt “extremely lucky” to be offered a job as a chip designer at Blue Ocean Smart System, an American company based in his hometown Hsinchu, the heart of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. He said the role gave hi... See more

In July, I sat among roughly 100 people in a packed conference room in Taipei as a speaker highlighted the industrial parks and tax rates of an American city nearly 7,000 miles away. “There are ribbon-cutting ceremonies almost every week. Everywhere you l... See more