1/ And last week’s regular Bulletin is also worth a read! China's domestic AI governance, a big batch of standards, the UN and APEC tracks, new models, and a biosecurity safety paper worth your attention. 🧵👇

1/ I was on the ground at the World AI conference. What I saw is in a special issue of the China AI Bulletin, plus a breakdown of Moonshot’s Kimi-K3. 🧵👇

Delighted to be part of the latest ChinaFile Conversation. I wrote on a layer rarely covered in the West: China's academic AI law drafts tackling liability, training data, whistleblowers & agents. https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/are-there-any-good-ideas-ai-governance

What happened in Chinese AI governance, development, and safety in the last few weeks? Read on for highlights of Issue 5 of the China AI Bulletin 🧵👇

What happened in Chinese AI governance, development, and safety in the last few weeks? Issue 4 of the China AI Bulletin is out. Read on for highlights 🧵👇

Issue 3 of the China AI Bulletin is out! This edition: China finalizes its Human-Like AI Interim Measures, DeepSeek and Moonshot launch new flagship models, and the NDRC blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition. Read it here: chinaaibulletin.substack.com/p/china-ai-b...

China AI Bulletin 3

Developments from 8/4/26-29/4/26

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So excited to present a new resource for the #AIgovernance community, the China AI Bulletin: chinaaibulletin.substack.com

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If you’re working on #AIgovernance, you need to understand China. The China AI Bulletin is a newsletter I’ve launched to be your one-stop-shop for regular updates on AI development, governance, and safety.

📬 Issue 2 of the China #AI Bulletin is out! This edition: Alibaba breaks with open-weight tradition with Qwen 3.6-Plus, Zhipu open-sources a model claiming #1 on SWE-Bench Pro, MIIT extends #AIethics regulation to the research stage, and TC260 launches a coordinated push on agent security standards.

📬 What if we Claudified the US constitution? I rewrote the US Constitution in the style of Claude's—turns out Madison and Anthropic have very different theories of control. 🧵

There is no faster route to self-knowledge than measuring the pixel distance between your pupils for a Chinese visa photo. Unfortunately, that knowledge is just a detailed inventory of all your minor facial asymmetries.

🔍 WR 75: A really bad week for xAI — Highlights from the latest Weekly Reckoning. Major setbacks for Elon Musk’s xAI/Grok and a broader shake-up in the AI world. 1/

The Weekly Reckoning is back! Get briefed on the tech news of the week (Grok's latest meltdown, China's new AI companion law, and insider trading in prediction markets), plus some musings on the excellent podcast BETH'S DEAD. 🔗👇

Slightly longer hiatus than planned 🫣 but the ER is back with a new edition on the Digital Vulnerabilities in the Age of AI (DIVAS) summit. Curious about how AI makes us vulnerable in new contexts? Check it out here: ethicalreckoner.subs...

My new indicator of AI-generated academic text is slightly random three-word groupings at the end of paragraphs. Ex: "XYZ is important for legibility, visibility, and control."

If things have been a little quiet around here recently, it's because I've been working towards this (slightly underwhelming) email... but now, it's #disserdone!

Dissertation update: word and zotero have teamed up to stage an eleventh-hour rebellion. They shall be brought to heel. #academia

We're getting there. #thesislife

Pleased that my and @floridi.bsky.social's article on US state #AI legislation is an Editor's Pick in the latest issue of the Journal of AI Law & Regulation! Want to understand the major tensions in AI regulation? 🔗👇, + our other piece on the US AI Action Plan. #STS #philtech @yaledec.bsky.social

🚨 new preprint from me and @floridi.bsky.social! We put the #AI Action Plan in context—how is it a continuation of existing US #AIgovernance efforts, what’s new, and what does it mean for China competition? 🔗👇 @ssrn.bsky.social @yaledec.bsky.social #academia #sts #philtech

🚨 Interested in infrastructure ethics? (Wait, don’t go!) New preprint “Extended Reality as a Fundamentally Mediated Reality” argues that XR isn’t just a cool tech, but infrastructures that shape our realities ➡️ urgent questions about equity, governance, and ethics. 🔗👇

📬 Anthropic settles its copyright case, Google avoids a break-up, and Grok swings right. Plus, why the EU needs a DeepSeek, not a Mistral. All this in today’s newsletter: ethicalreckoner.subs... #philtech #sts #newsletter

WR 72: Anthropic settles; Google persists

Weekly Reckoning for the week of 8/9/25

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1. If passengers book a flight from the EU and it is canceled or significantly delayed, they are entitled to cash compensation — $300 to $700. In the US, flyers were supposed to get similar rights soon. But those plans have been scrapped by the Trump administration. Here's how it happened. 🧵

How airlines lobbied away your flight compensation

After a $62 billion federal bailout, the airline industry secures the repeal of a key consumer protection.

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Anthropic is very, very relieved about this. Max penalties would have been extinction; this is <1% of their valuation.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books."

#ICYMI, a post on #AI companies from last year that's just as relevant today with the continuation of the lawsuits, employee poaching, and sky-high valuations! #philtech #sts

This should have said "an inevitable future business model"--because we all know ads are coming 🫠

Emmie Hine@emmiehine.com · 11mo ago

At least in the case of OpenAI, there are no ads and they claim to not sell your user data. Are companies just trying to lock users in and maximize loyalty to continue subscriptions, or are they preparing for a future business model where eyeballs are $?

Recently have been seeing the "attention economy" narrative applied to #genAI--ie, that gen #AI companies are trying to maximize engagement to maximize profit. But I'm not convinced this is the case. #tech

I think my junk conference invites have peaked. #IEvenCompost

Word, you don't rest till I do. #DissertationLife

Maybe peer review takes so long because they're trying to fax invitations. #academia

#AIsafety collaboration could be a gateway to broader #AIgovernance cooperation between the US and China. Thinking a lot about cooperative levers these days... time.com/7308857/chi... #AI

China Is Taking AI Safety Seriously. So Must the U.S.

"Chinese leaders may have a lesson for the West’s AI boosters: true speed requires control," writes Brian Tse.

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