Trump: "So we're leading China in AI by a lot. China has virtually no controls. It's freewheeling a little bit."
Jensen's reaction:
Can someone explain why America has a “defence line” in Asia?
Defending what exactly?!
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations
As a Chinese person, I'm actually looking at these works with admiration for their unique talent
The Economist just dropped another classic:
“China’s mightiest river is coming back from the brink”
(The Economist, 2026)
But eco-authoritarianism is not all roses
Fish stocks up 200%+. Sturgeons breeding again. Porpoises recovering.
A 6,300 km river brought back from ecological death in a few years.
And still they manage to make it sound like a human-rights violation with a green filter.
The cope is relentless.
Every time China fixes something the West spent decades lecturing about, the headlines twist themselves into pretzels to find the dark side. Success is never allowed to stand on its own. It must be framed as accidental, authoritarian, temporary, or somehow still a failure.
The formula never changes. Deliver results → insert the “yes, but…” → remind everyone that competence without the correct ideology is suspicious.
Here are ten titles that are already jokes the moment you read them:
China builds the world’s largest high-speed rail network – tragically, people can now arrive on time
(The New York Times, 2024)
800 million lifted out of poverty – but did anyone ask if they miss the dirt floors?
(The Guardian, 2021)
China’s EV factories dominate the planet – a clear threat to Western parking lots
(Financial Times, 2025)
Yangtze fish stocks triple after fishing ban – eco-authoritarianism claims another victim (the fishermen’s freedom to go bankrupt)
(The Economist, 2026)
China plants billions of trees – nature recovers without a single democratic consultation
(BBC, 2023)
World’s biggest renewable energy capacity installed – still somehow China’s fault for the climate
(Bloomberg, 2025)
Poverty eliminated in record time – experts warn success may discourage future suffering
(Washington Post, 2020)
Chinese high-speed trains run at 350 km/h – democracy would have preferred a slower, more inclusive timetable
(The Atlantic, 2022)
Belt and Road builds ports and railways across continents – developing countries cruelly denied the right to remain underdeveloped
(Foreign Policy, 2023)
China’s space station completes missions without exploding – suspiciously competent for a non-Western power
(CNN, 2024)
Same script every single time.
China delivers results → Western media delivers the “yes, but…”
They can’t celebrate competence when it doesn’t come wrapped in their preferred ideology.
The cope is becoming performance art at this point.
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No thanks to Moonshot?
Kimi K3 is now in Cursor! It scores close to the frontier on CursorBench.
It's available on US-based inference thanks to our partners Fireworks, Together, and Baseten. Zero Data Retention is also supported.
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The President of the United States and Donald Trump.
If people know enough about Taoism and 易经, they’ll be surprised how Chinese ancient philosophy actually perfectly rhymes with cyber technology
I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.
Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.
When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.
That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.
Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.
(I am open to being corrected.)
Full writeup:
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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
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X-Copy Professional was originally programmed by Frank Neuhaus and Hans Georg Berg for Cachet Software in 1991.
It's likely the most used software ever for the Amiga. The iconic "takk-takk-takk-GRRR-boingggg!" sound at the 0:15 mark lives rent free in my head forever.
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Jokes aside, once you understand the ranking of shi-nong-gong-shang (not a caste system lmao) , it becomes clear that China has a very long cultural tradition of skepticism toward unrestrained capital and rich merchants. Merchants were placed last not because they were useless, but precisely because they were seen as potentially destabilizing: people who could amass great wealth and influence without producing anything tangible or serving the state directly. Actually the perfect civilization to adapt Marxism , no wonder socialism with Chinese characteristics worked so well.
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As you requested bro
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
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Best news of the year: Kaja Kallas' only diplomatic achievement may end up uniting Europe on the need to get rid of her, and dismantle her own office.
People outside of China wonder why China has a separate Internet while the Chinese in the comments are wondering why other countries have no internet sovereignty. It’s actually embarrassing when world leaders need to use an American platform to make an announcement about their countries’ policies.
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I want to say a final thing about my Fable first reaction: I dedicated my life to programming and I'll use every innovation in the field, also to extract value and bring it to the local inference world, to Redis, and so forth. But:
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A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.
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Wormhole, maybe the best term about Huawei's approach on chip design.
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