Nvidia’s chips can be matched. Its CUDA software moat was supposed to be unbreakable. Today DeepSeek open-sourced Huawei-built tools to route around it — free to the world. watchchina.ai on the assault on America’s last real advantage.
Trump and Xi spent hours on AI and reached no deal — just an agreement not to govern it. watchchina.ai predicted exactly this for four months. The non-outcome is the story: the race now belongs to chips, power, and open-source code.
“AI is improving itself now” is going viral, built on a real DeepSeek engineer’s essay. But he explicitly rejected both readings the hype attaches to him. The real story is an elegy for lost craft — and a window into why talent chooses China’s open labs.
“BREAKING: China made it illegal for AI to take your job” is going viral. It’s wrong three ways. But the real ruling — you can’t be fired just because an AI can do your work — is quietly more significant, and no Western country has matched it.
US intelligence just named six Chinese AI firms for industrial-scale distillation, 16 days before the summit. watchchina.ai read all 3,585 words — including the fact that “theft” appears exactly zero times. What the document says, and what it pointedly doesn’t.