Derek Thompson(@DKThomp):this is maybe a shade too provocative a framing, but ... the wild thing about folks in and close to govt talking about banning foreign tech and taking direct shares in frontier labs to protect them from short-term profit squeezes on the way to global domination is that you can almost frame a question being posed here as something like: "can the US government become China faster than Kimi can become Claude?"

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Derek Thompson@DKThomp

2026.07.22 13:58

this is maybe a shade too provocative a framing, but ... the wild thing about folks in and close to govt talking about banning foreign tech and taking direct shares in frontier labs to protect them from short-term profit squeezes on the way to global domination is that you can almost frame a question being posed here as something like: "can the US government become China faster than Kimi can become Claude?"

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