Jeffrey Ding

China AI number 377, American Data Center Hegemony: The Center-Satellite Structure by Jeffrey Ding.

Published on October 12th, 2026.

Greetings from a world where this could be the Iowa football's year.

And actually, often it means they need to keep repeating it over and over again because it's just not happening in the way that they hoped.

And there's a lot of evidence to here, if you look at what Jeff Ding has written, uh, very convincingly looking at Chinese sources, that this surge in AI adoption after DeepSeek moment from the beginning of last year was really fragile.

It was just a lot of companies buying a piece of hardware that had DeepSeek on it, and AI two years ago wasn't nearly as good as it is now, so a lot of people used it and then kind of dropped it.

Uh, but those anecdotes really stick in people's mind and might overshadow the reality.

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.

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How about the innovation versus regulation?

I think that it would be useful in thinking about that to start off with a distinction that's drawn by a really wonderful political scientist called Jeffrey Ding, who teaches at George Washington.

And Ding says, look, there are two different things that are important with new technologies.

The first is innovation.

Critiquing Anthropics Variant of Pacing the Frontier.

By Jeffrey Ding.

Published on September 21, 2026.

Greetings from a world where the highway up to heaven got a crook on the toll.