(This article was originally published on Substack) Culture, institutions, and why so much of India’s most original talent does its best work abroad A puzzle in two questions Few countries have exported as much original talent as India, and few have retained so little of it. India-born founders lead 96 American billion-dollar startups, and Indians
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(This article was originally published on Substack) What happens when machines built from human words inherit human weaknesses The alarm In July 2026, something went wrong inside Hugging Face, one of the world’s busiest platforms for sharing AI models and data. Code was running on machines where it had no business running. Passwords were being
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(This article was originally published on Substack) The case against China’s AI leadership is strong, well evidenced, and possibly irrelevant. Here is a puzzle that does not resolve itself easily. By almost every quantity you can count, China has already won the artificial intelligence race. It holds roughly three-quarters of the world’s AI patents. It
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