(A) Science, Technology and Innovation

By Jonathan Zhukovsky Aug. 6, 2026 – … the only scoreboard that matters: which models the grad students at Berkeley, Stanford, MIT and Carnegie Mellon reach for when they start an experiment….By early this year, 70% of all new fine-tuned models—the derivative works researchers and developers build on top of base models—were built on Chinese foundations….The winner of a platform war is whoever captures the contribution loop—the self-reinforcing cycle in which researchers, toolmakers and downstream builders improve a platform…. China’s AI labs have internalized this lesson…. Open-sourcing is how a nation exports its stack. Read More