Paul Triolo

@pstAsiatech

Unflinching look @ nexus: tech/geopolitics. Digital Econ, Semis, AI, Greentech, Partner, SVP China/Tech Policy Lead DGA ASG, ASPI CCA. Substack: AI Decrypted

Washington, DC

Joined May 2016

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 18

Looking forward to this next week! #BrainstormAI Great panel with @ruima @hlntnr @RevaGoujon with the great @claychandler as moderator!

pstAsiatech's tweet image. Looking forward to this next week! #BrainstormAI
Great panel with @ruima @hlntnr @RevaGoujon with the great @claychandler as moderator!

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 6 h

US, Japan agree trade deal, lowering threatened Trump tariff to 15% asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-… via @NikkeiAsia

pstAsiatech's tweet card. Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia news and expert analysis published by Nikkei, an award-winning independent provider of quality journalism.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 9 h

FuriosaAI, the Seoul-based startup seeking to design chips to compete with Nvidia, has sealed its first major contract months after rejecting an $800 million acquisition offer from Meta bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. FuriosaAI Inc., the Seoul-based startup seeking to design chips to compete with Nvidia Corp., has sealed its first major contract months after rejecting an $800 million acquisition offer from Meta...

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 10 h

Thanks to @claychandler and the team at Fortune for putting together a great panel today on China US AI competition as part of Brainstorm AI Singapore!!! And great fellow panelists @RevaGoujon @ruima and @hlntnr!!!

RRui Ma@ruima · 10 h

Thanks @FortuneMagazine for having me as part of the Brainstorm AI Singapore 2025 to talk about US-China AI competition! In esteemed company with @pstAsiatech @RevaGoujon and @hlntnr!

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 11 h

US Treasury chief says trade talks with China to continue next week in Sweden Beijing has yet to confirm Stockholm talks, but Swedish Prime Minister Kristersson said in a post on X his country would play host to the US-China negotiations next week. scmp.com/news/china/dip…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. Scott Bessent says talks will take place Monday and Tuesday in Stockholm to work on a likely extension of tariffs pause.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 11 h

Has China’s Qianfan satellite network and Starlink rival run into trouble? scmp.com/news/china/sci…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. A shortage of rockets and competition for launch resources appear to be putting the mega-constellation’s targets in doubt.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 11 h

Sanctioned German China expert visits Beijing in sign of easing restrictions Good sign. Impossible to do solid China research remotely... scmp.com/news/china/dip…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. Development comes on the eve of a high-stakes EU-China summit, an event that has been mired in negativity.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 11 h

Significant...China warns of data theft via ‘back doors’ in imported chips, smart gadgets sc.mp/ppy4g?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

pstAsiatech's tweet card. Alert from top intelligence agency includes call to use China-made chips and OS for ‘critical classified roles’.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 13 h

Trump may travel to China to meet Xi in 'not-too-distant future' On the one hand, November is in not too distant future, on the other, it is a long time to wait for presidential meeting... reuters.com/world/china/tr…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he may visit China soon for a landmark trip to address simmering trade and security tensions between the superpower rivals.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · 20 h

Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War (It’s Not Just Money) — The Information theinformation.com/articles/apple…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company’s artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Doing so would have shown Apple’s technical...

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

Return of Nvidia H20 chip to China clears AI bottleneck: Morgan Stanley Nvidia told its Chinese customers that the supply of the chips would be limited and that it did not plan to restart production of the model scmp.com/tech/article/3…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. Questions remain about availability of the chip favoured for training large language models, as Nvidia warns of limited supply.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

Moonshot’s Kimi K2 soars in popularity amid experts’ praise for Chinese AI scmp.com/tech/tech-tren…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. Downloads of the model double in a few days, an analyst says gap between open-source AI development in China and the US is ‘getting wider’.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

Alibaba upgrades Qwen3 model to outperform OpenAI, DeepSeek in maths, coding scmp.com/tech/big-tech/…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. A member of the Qwen3 family gets an upgrade and outperforms products from rivals OpenAI and DeepSeek.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

Nvidia said it was working to support the RISC-V chip architecture on its CUDA software platform, a move expected to boost the open-source movement that China is betting on as part of its tech self-sufficiency drive. scmp.com/tech/big-tech/…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. The move represents a major step by the US semiconductor giant in boosting the development of open-source chip architecture in AI computing.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

The Investors Set to Win Big From Meta's Scale AI Deal theinformation.com/articles/inves…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. They are co-workers to be, they are both college dropouts-turned billionaire tech founders and they both have recently steered their public images toward wherever the political winds have blown. With...

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end wsj.com/tech/ai/softba…

pstAsiatech's tweet card. The Stargate venture, unveiled at a White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end.

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

#ChinaREEControls #USChinaTechColdWar

JJukan@Jukanlosreve · Jul 22

Indian Media: Foxconn's AirPods Production in India Affected by Rare Earth Shortage Due to Mainland China's Controls The Economic Times (ET) of India, citing sources, reported that Hon Teng Precision, a subsidiary of Hon Hai Technology Group, has been affected by a shortage of…

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

Agree....

MMax Tegmark@tegmark · Jul 22

AI has been chronically overhyped until about 4 years ago, but underhyped since then:

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Paul Triolo@pstAsiatech · Jul 22

👇👇👇

EElon Musk@elonmusk · Jul 21

If our retro-futuristic diner turns out well, which I think it will, @Tesla will establish these in major cities around the world, as well as at Supercharger sites on long distance routes. An island of good food, good vibes & entertainment, all while Supercharging!

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