Interwoven frontiers: Energy, AI, and US-China competition

Interwoven frontiers: Energy, AI, and US-China competition

The fates of breakthrough technologies and the energy to power them are deeply interwoven, with progress at scale in one difficult to advance without the other. Nowhere is this interconnection more consequential—and more dynamic—than in the U.S.-China relationship, which is marked by intense political tensions and competition, but also by under-appreciated technical overlap. Given the…

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Vibe Coding: How SMBs Can Build AI Apps Using Plain Language

How SMBs Can Build AI Apps Using Plain Language

Every new trend comes with its own nomenclature. In the 1980s, it was yuppie for young urban professional. The 1990s saw the rise of the expression soccer mom. In the 2000s, we had hipsters. Now there’s a new term in artificial intelligence programming: vibe coding. Coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to…

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OpenAI's open source pivot shows how U.S. tech is trying to catch up to China's AI surge

OpenAI’s open source pivot shows how U.S. tech is trying to catch up to China’s AI surge

OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, released two bombshell AI developments last week. Last Thursday, it released GPT-5, the long-awaited update to its powerful GPT model.  But OpenAI’s earlier decision to release open-source versions of its powerful model—the first time it’s done so since 2020, may be more consequential. OpenAI’s move follows a flood of Chinese…

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