Top American AI execs sound alarm on Chinese models

The White House is divided on how to respond to recent advances in Chinese AI and has weighed crackdown measures.

After US birthright citizenship ruling, lessons from how foreigners once ‘became Chinese’

Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship comes amid rising xenophobia. A look at how premodern China offered varied paths to ...

Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher: “If you realize you have enough, you are truly rich”

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich,” Lao Tzu famously said. The philosopher, regarded as one of the most ...

AI Startup Reflection Inks $1 Billion Compute Deal To Challenge China’s Open Source Dominance

Cofounders Misha Laskin (left) and Ioannis Antonoglou (right) left Google Deepmind to start Reflection in March 2024.
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The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History

The Pekin Noodle Parlor in Butte, Montana, serves what owner Jerry Tam calls “Chinese American comfort food.” Rebecca Stumpf The oldest continuously operated Chinese restaurant in America is not in ...