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The AI Oligopoly We could Create by Trying to Prevent One My analysis and response to the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act Substack · September 25, 2026 Twenty Researchers, One Table Notes from WAIC 2026 in Shanghai — on Xi Jinping’s open source pledge, the safety debt Chinese labs are carrying, and why Washington’s instinct to build… Substack · July 30, 2026 Distillation Is Not IP Theft Confusing a scientific method with a legal wrong will harm open AI—and obscure the real issues Substack · July 24, 2026 From Code to Cognition: How LLMs, VLAs, and World Models Are Rewiring Robotics A field guide to the evolution of the robot brain with insights from my visit to Chinese robotics startups. Substack · May 26, 2026 Eight Days in China: What I Learned from the AI Labs, Robotics Startups and Academia By Matt White, Global CTO of AI at the Linux Foundation & CTO of the PyTorch Foundation and LF AI & Data Substack · May 13, 2026