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America's place in technology and power: where the frontier labs and chips are, its founding ideas, and its race with China.

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  2. articleThe Bottleneck Is Data, and Europe Is Sitting on It

    Frontier AI is running short on public text, not compute. Europe's edge is the high-quality data it never put online. Capturing it needs coordination.

    Training dataOpen dataEuropeIntellectual propertyProvenanceLanguages and translationTechnology racesUnited StatesChina

    34 min read · 8 chapters

  3. articlePatents Per Capita Is a Vanity Metric

    Switzerland tops the Global Innovation Index for the fifteenth year running. As an engineer, that should make you suspicious of the metric, not proud of the country.

    MetricsPolicySovereigntyEconomicsSwitzerlandIntellectual propertyUnited StatesChinaSemiconductors

    23 min read · 6 chapters

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