The Ledger, every show
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Bishop: Corrupt PLA officer promotions functioned like angel investments for future revenue
“It's kind of like an angel investment, at least in some cases where actually people would collectively buy a stake in a rising officer because I'm not joking. Right. Literally.”
Bishop: Trump will delay $20 billion Taiwan arms sale until Xi meeting
“Over the weekend, you know, we saw, I think on Friday, the Financial Times reported, yes, there's a twenty billion dollar package in the works and it's something the Chinese don't want to have happen, and they have threatened to postpone or cancel Trump's visi…”
Bishop: China's AI strategy prioritizes economic diffusion over frontier models
“They have like this AI plus plan they rolled out a couple months ago, where it's really to embed AI throughout the economy and throughout society. And so they're not really focused on As much as sort of getting to AGI and these massive models, they're really m…”
Bishop: State Department blocks Commerce-approved NVIDIA H200 sales to China
“What's interesting, right, I think it was the Financial Times reported last week that even though, ah, like, the Department of Commerce has signed off on the licenses to sell to China the H 200, that the Department of State, or the State Department, which has …”
Bishop: Military purges reduce China's Central Military Commission to two members
“The PLA has a top structure, it's called the Central Military, Military Commission, and it's got a chairman who's Xi Jinping, and then two vice chairmen and four members. So seven members. They're now two members, Xi and a vice chairman, because he's purged th…”
Bishop: Chinese AI firms IPO earlier with far less capital than OpenAI
“Yes, with much lower revenue, raising much less money, much lower valuations, and a lot of it is because they, you know, they actually need the capital. I mean, it's, I think they, but the amount of capital they need in the raising is a frat. It's like, you kn…”
Bishop: US Lacks Drone Supply Chain That China Possesses
“I mean, China has a supply chain for this stuff, and we still don't, and so whether or not these regulations will pull that supply chain creation here, it remains to be seen.”
Bishop: China places military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli under investigation
“All we got was a very terse statement from a very nervous looking Ministry of Defense spokesperson announcing that these two individuals, Zhang Yuxiao and Liu Zhenli, had been put under investigation.”
Bishop: Taiwan's Opposition Coalition Blocks Budget for US Arms Package
“The Taiwan legislature won't approve the budget to buy the last package of weapons because it's the opposition party controls, with a coalition party controls the legislature.”
Bishop: DeepSeek will launch its next model within eight or nine days
“And so now everyone's waiting for DeepSeek's next model, which is supposed to launch on or around Lunar New Year, which is next Wednesday the 17th. So we should have some sort of a DeepSeek model in the next eight or nine days.”