Paul Mozur
@paulmozur.bsky.social
Cover tech and geopolitics for the New York Times. Email pmozur at nytimes.com. Check out my past work at https://www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur
Our latest on the global AI boom looks at how Saudi Arabia is trying to turn is billions in oil wealth into a real advantage in AI. The calculation is that AI is one of the few businesses that give it the same geopolitical sway that its energy resources have. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter
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Chile is not generally a place that gets much attention from the tech world. But the way it has been dealing with AI and the massive build out in data centers should. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics
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When a Microsoft data center opened next to the small Mexican town of La Esperanza, locals say electricity outages and water shortages grew severe. The local doctor rushed patients a half hour to the nearest hospital when blackouts cut off his oxygen concentrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
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Our newest AI investigation opens in a Taipei bar where Chinese exec Alice Huang toasted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Her company soon began receiving billions in AI chips. Now her firm is being investigated by the U.S. government for selling those chips on to China. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...
A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
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The Trump family got a $2 billion deposit into their crypto company, the United Arab Emirates got a huge amount of restricted AI chips despite security concerns. Our story about how how business is being done, and influence gained, in the second Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
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“Oil-producing countries have had an oversized influence on international affairs; in an A.I.-powered near future, compute producers could have something similar since they control access to a critical resource,” Prof Vili Lehdonvirta told @paulmozur.bsky.social, @nytimes.com.
Paul Mozur@paulmozur.bsky.social · last yr.A new A.I. divide is forming. As the biggest companies and richest countries scramble for GPUs, much of the world is being left behind. It's a new type of inequality that will go a long way to determining development in the coming years. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A new A.I. divide is forming. As the biggest companies and richest countries scramble for GPUs, much of the world is being left behind. It's a new type of inequality that will go a long way to determining development in the coming years. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.
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The US' largest private prison operator, Geo Group, also runs one of its largest immigrant surveillance programs. Now, ICE is using the privately run system to track and deport growing numbers of people. 200k are currently in the system. Geo expects it to grow. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...
How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
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Good piece in China Talk @jordanschneider.bsky.social I’ve been trying to hit these points in our recent DeepSeek stories. Its approach is very against the grain for China tech. Completely opposed to the grueling hours/top-down ethic that typify big tech in China www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseeks-...
If confirmed as a commercial airliner in the Potomac, this mid-air collision at DCA would be the worst U.S. air disaster since the Colgan Air Q400 crash near Buffalo in 2009.
A short explainer on Liang Wenfeng. It is amazing how much he does NOT sound like a Chinese tech boss. In the context of China's grueling tech work environment he sounds downright hippyish: "Everyone has their own unique journey and brings their own ideas with them, so there’s no need to push them."
Who Is Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of the A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek?
The Chinese company DeepSeek seemed to have come out of nowhere this week when it upturned markets. Here’s what to know about Liang Wenfeng, the engineer who started it.
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the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
One of the interesting things about DeepSeek is that two creative constrictions created its advances. One is obviously U.S. chip restrictions. But the second was China's crackdown on speculative trading, which drove the company to put money into pure A.I. research. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star
The little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.
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Nice profile showing how DeepSeek is an exception in China’s AI ecosystem. Yesterday, I wrote a similar piece on my substack, also highlighting how the company is an outlier in rather than a representation of the “China model” - you can read it here: highvalueadded.substack.com/p/deepseek-p...
Paul Mozur@paulmozur.bsky.social · 2y agoOur profile of DeepSeek. There have been tons of hot takes, but it's valuable to understand the company's story. In many ways it's the exception to the AI ecosystem in China at the moment. While others chased quick returns, DeepSeek set its sites on real disruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
Our profile of DeepSeek. There have been tons of hot takes, but it's valuable to understand the company's story. In many ways it's the exception to the AI ecosystem in China at the moment. While others chased quick returns, DeepSeek set its sites on real disruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star
The little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.
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For anyone wanting to know more about Xinjiang/the Uyghur region I have made a starter pack of campaigners, academics and journalists who research and write about the region. It's still very incomplete - I'd be grateful for more suggestions! go.bsky.app/PWzGYxx
For years the U.S. has struggled to convince countries to shun Huawei and other China tech. Now it believes it has a way to do it, offer Nvidia chips in exchange. That's the basis of a new A.I. diplomacy emerging as a last gasp policy from the Biden Admin. Nvidia, caught in the middle, is not happy.
Nvidia’s Global Chips Sales Could Collide With US-China Tensions
The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.
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Probably not many remember Chinese chip investor Canyon Bridge, but it made waves with a bid for Lattice Semiconductor 7 years ago. The US blocked the deal. So Canyon Bridge bought UK based Imagination. US seems to have been justified. Knowledge transfer programs sent key IP to China AI chip firms.
Chinese AI chip firms blacklisted over weapons concerns gained access to UK technology
Imagination Technologies had licences with two Chinese firms – but said it had not ‘implemented transactions’ that would enable the use of technology for military purposes
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Def some signaling happening with China's Taiwan Affairs Office suddenly warning about TSMC becoming the "American Semiconductor Manufacturing Company." TSMC's founder, Morris Chang, after all, is American. Since TSMC cut out Huawei, its loyalties have been clear. www.globaltimes.cn/page/202412/...
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Manufacturers in China recently began limiting sales to the US and Europe of key components used to build unmanned aerial vehicles, according to multiple people with knowledge of the developments
China Is Cutting Off Drone Supplies Critical to Ukraine War Effort
China’s escalating conflict with the US over trade is now extending to the drones that have become a vital part of Ukraine’s defense.
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THREAD: How China is influencing local elections in New York City, mobilizing organizations via a local power broker known as "The King of Brooklyn" (布鲁克林之王）to ensure that candidates who voice sympathy for Taiwan, or for Hong Kong democracy, are either defeated or never get elected. (1/x)
From Russia's Rybar TG channel - the importance of Syria is a key hub for Russian operations in Africa. Loss of Syria as a refueling and logistics point undermines all of Russian efforts on the continent.
New footage from inside Sednaya Prison, filmed by IDA and sent to @nytimes.com, shows the grim conditions within: numbered cells with debris, crumbling walls and ceilings, family members looking for loved ones sifting through paper records. nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
Footage shows a chaotic scene after rebels capture a notorious prison.
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The White Helmets are searching the Sandnaya compound, but haven't yet found any of the rumoured secret doors or hidden basements in the complex.
Just out: The first Western media interview with South Korea’s opposition leader since the martial law debacle. He’s been compared with both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump:
He Might Be South Korea’s Next President. All He Has to Do Is Impeach the Current One.
Following the short-lived attempt by President Yoon Suk Yeol to impose martial law, opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is now within striking distance of his nation’s top job.
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Big news, China investigating Nvidia for violating antimonopoly law. Even with US export controls there’s a lot of revenue for Nvidia to lose in China. Another skirmish in the supply chain war. As we said last week, expect China to be aggressive in response to Trump. www.reuters.com/technology/c...
