The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would only finance America’s own destruction. Huang, for his part, has consistently cautioned that U.S. export […] The post DeepSeek-OCR: China’s Answer to the U.S. Chip Ban appeared first on Internet Governance Pro...| Internet Governance Project
In mid-September 2025, U.S. and Chinese officials convened in Madrid for a high-level negotiation that yielded a breakthrough on the TikTok deal: a “basic framework consensus” for resolving the long dispute over the platform. This meeting marked the fourth round of China–U.S. trade and technology negotiations since Trump announced new tariffs in April. The possibility […] The post Identity politics: The TikTok Deal, Chinese export controls, and firms’ country-of-origin conundrum app...| Internet Governance Project
Inflated expectations, inflated assets, inflated capital investments, bad policy. It’s all got to end pretty soon. Artificial intelligence applications are everywhere. They unlock your phone, correct your spelling, redesign your slide presentations, recommend videos, scan and summarize reports and papers, converse with you. All these use cases are different, yet we continue to be misled […]| Internet Governance Project
There are many reasons to be concerned about freedom of expression in America these days. But one of them, and perhaps the most insidious, is going under the radar. I am talking about the framework agreement under which TikTok’s US application would be “operated” and substantially controlled by a US entity. Buried in the […] The post The shocking part of the TikTok settlement that no one’s talking about appeared first on Internet Governance Project.| Internet Governance Project
It’s time to realize that our industrial policy for semiconductors is failing. It was built on three pillars: subsidies to encourage re-shoring of fabrication, export controls that made trade in chips a function of our political alliances; and an attempt to maintain a competitive advantage in the digital by decoupling from China. None of these […]| Internet Governance Project
The future of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process will be one of the main topics of the 2025 Internet Governance Forum. Many in the IG community are heavily invested in the renewal of WSIS. They imply that if it is not renewed, there will be major, negative effects on the way we […]| Internet Governance Project
