“ChinAI #376: Around the Horn (27th episode)” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured links ChinAI #365 My “Tier-5” hometown became a Token Capital Using AI for National Day travel: the first wave of users feel let down Why do Kimi and DeepSeek appear in the same model configuration? BAT giants redo AI pre-training to fix the “Dirty Data” pitfall Alibaba DAMO Academy’s Medical AI, piecing together a decades-long picture Jev Dethroned: Chinese open-source decision model StartLux takes top spot Research Report on Development of the Token Economy (2026) In the US-China AI race, the deciding factor isn’t compute, it’s another thing What happens when AI employees join the workforce? Ban on AI-Human “Romantic Relationships”: New rules on minors’ internet use to tighten controls on virtual companions Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues here & please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay for a subscription will support access for all). Any suggestions or feedback? Let me know at [email protected] or on Twitter at @jjding99 --- First published: October 5th, 2026 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-376-around-the-horn-27th-episode --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.