Edition No. 29 · Tue 21 Jul 2026 · Story 8 of 25
"Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?"
Stratechery
Ben Thompson argues tokens aren't a commodity but intelligence is, and proposes making training-data collection explicitly fair use.
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