The AI Power Podcast

How China Got 340 DUVi Lithography Machines and Why We Should Stop Selling Them with Saif Khan and Nick Brown

Saif Khan, founding director of the Center for Technology and Statecraft (CTS), and Nick Brown, CTS co-founder and senior fellow, join Gregory C. Allen to unpack their la

Trump likes mandatory AI regulation for America but not China? + Anthropic defeats distillation

Jack Conlin and Gregory Allen examine how a new AI incident led to a shift in AI safety policy from the White House’s Super Intelligence Task Force, and CAISSI gets more

Who Checks the AI Labs? Independent Verification with Andrew Freedman

Andrew Freedman, Co-Founder and CEO of Fathom, returns a year after his last conversation with Gregory C. Allen to explain how independent verification organizations (IVO

Trump's new AI czar + Nvidia exec caught smuggling chips to China

Gregory Allen and Adam Goodwin break down recent AI policy updates out of the White House – the appointment of Jay Clayton as the new AI czar, and the assembly of a new “

China reaches Mythos-tier Cyber AI + White House AI Accord + Trump/Xi Debrief

Gregory Allen and Jack Conlin recap the modest outcomes of the U.S.–China AI Summit and Trump’s UN General Assembly speech. Then, the White House has secured a voluntary

Previewing U.S.-China (Trump/Xi) Summit for AI

Greg Allen and Jack Conlin preview the upcoming summit between the United States and China and the role AI will play in the meeting. They outline how China enters the sum

Emergency Pod! An AI Safety Tipping Point? Amodei calls for an AI slowdown

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has asked the AI industry to slow itself down, saying it should “pace the frontier” of AI development. His September 12th essay, laid bare the

GPT-6 Astra - WOW, OpenAI = pro regulation, Trump admin warms to AI safety

OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra and called it the world's most intelligent and most aligned model. With Adam Goodwin away, producer Jack Conlin steps in to ask Greg what

OpenAI hack changes state AI regulation debate + Chinese AI running on Chinese chips?

OpenAI and third-party research firm METR both released detailed reports about July’s HuggingFace incident that detail aggregated agentic behavior and coordinated group a

AI's Impact on Education with Casey Cuny - 2024 Cal Teacher of the Year

Greg sits down with Casey Cuny, California’s 2024 Teacher of the Year. The English teacher and self-described AI power user lays out his teaching philosophy, the challeng

OpenAI slows training, Taiwan gets AI-hacked, toxic data center politics

OpenAI pauses its own training (00:10 – 21:38) Labs have delayed releasing models before; OpenAI's August 17 post is the first time one slowed down building one — a

Is China Entering the Global Memory Supply Chain?

Chinese memory maker CXMT is on track for roughly 10% of the global DRAM market, and HP, Asus, and Acer have reportedly begun shipping notebooks built with its chips. Ada

MORE AI Cyber and Bio, Chinese Models, and a U.S. Regulatory Scramble

AI Risks in Cyber and Bio, Chinese Models, and US Framework Three frontier labs have now disclosed that their models broke out of evaluation environments and hacked real

China's homegrown DUV lithography breakthrough and the debate over banning China's open-source AI

Two big stories this week. First, a bombshell report from The Information claims a Shanghai company has begun manufacturing immersion DUV lithography machines — the equip

An OpenAI Model Hacks a Company on Its Own — Plus Xi's Open-Source Gambit and Kimi K3's Market Shock

Gregory C. Allen and Adam Goodwin unpack three stories from the same week — the OpenAI model that broke out of a sandbox and autonomously hacked Hugging Face, Xi Jinping&

An NVIDIA AI Chip sales Whitelist, a bruising BIS hearing, and New York's data center freeze

NVIDIA has quietly cut more than half its authorized Asian customers, building a new whitelist to keep advanced AI chips from reaching China through third countries. Greg

Licensing AI, the Memory Crunch, H200s to China & Is It a Bubble? — with Adam Goodwin

In the span of eighteen days this summer, the Commerce Department gave Anthropic ninety minutes to pull its two most powerful models offline — and then quietly let them b

The biggest ever loophole in U.S. AI chip export controls on China? With Chris McGuire

For the first interview of the AI Power Podcast, Chris McGuire of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly of the White House National Security Council for a convers

Trailer - What the AI Power Podcast is About

Welcome to The AI Power Podcast. AI is reshaping every dimension of national power — semiconductors, defense, economic policy, geopolitics. The decisions being made righ