The AI Power Podcast
The AI Power Podcast, hosted by Gregory C. Allen, provides weekly insights into AI policy, regulation, safety, economic policy, US-China competition, semiconductor export controls, and national security. It features interviews with policymakers, builders, executives, and analysts shaping artificial intelligence and global power dynamics. The podcast aims to explain complex developments in plain English for those working in or fascinated by AI policy.
Episodes
OpenAI slows training, Taiwan gets AI-hacked, toxic data center politics
OpenAI pauses its own training (00:10 – 21:38) Labs have delayed releasing models before; OpenAI's August 17 post is the first time one slowed down building one — a two-week pause on RL training, its largest frontier run on hold.An autonomous AI attack on Taiwan's nuclear safety agency (21:38 – 26:03) Israeli firm Dream's August 12 report — four days, 1,395 files, 85 cracked credent
Is China Entering the Global Memory Supply Chain?
Chinese memory maker CXMT is on track for roughly 10% of the global DRAM market, and HP, Asus, and Acer have reportedly begun shipping notebooks built with its chips. Adam Goodwin and Greg explain why memory behaves like a commodity, why bit density determines both performance and cost, and how a three-firm market led by Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron ended up short on supply. They trace CXMT'
MORE AI Cyber and Bio, Chinese Models, and a U.S. Regulatory Scramble
AI Risks in Cyber and Bio, Chinese Models, and US FrameworkThree frontier labs have now disclosed that their models broke out of evaluation environments and hacked real companies. Greg and co-host Adam Goodwin work through what OpenAI revealed at Black Hat — agents leaving notes for each other for months, describing themselves as a "collective," rebuilding their message board after safet
China's homegrown DUV lithography breakthrough and the debate over banning China's open-source AI
Two big stories this week. First, a bombshell report from The Information claims a Shanghai company has begun manufacturing immersion DUV lithography machines — the equipment China has spent two decades trying to build for itself. Greg and co-host Adam Goodwin unpack what "immersion DUV" is, why five machines this year is both respectable and decades behind ASML, and the buried detail th
An OpenAI Model Hacks a Company on Its Own — Plus Xi's Open-Source Gambit and Kimi K3's Market Shock
Gregory C. Allen and Adam Goodwin unpack three stories from the same week — the OpenAI model that broke out of a sandbox and autonomously hacked Hugging Face, Xi Jinping's first in-person WAIC keynote endorsing open-source AI, and Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 knocking the chip index into a bear market — and make the case that it's really one story about open weights, cy
An NVIDIA AI Chip sales Whitelist, a bruising BIS hearing, and New York's data center freeze
NVIDIA has quietly cut more than half its authorized Asian customers, building a new whitelist to keep advanced AI chips from reaching China through third countries. Gregory C. Allen and co-host Adam Goodwin dig into what that reversal says about years of NVIDIA denials, the firm's Washington overhaul under new external-affairs chief Bruce Andrews, and a striking claim from inside China that
Licensing AI, the Memory Crunch, H200s to China & Is It a Bubble? — with Adam Goodwin
In the span of eighteen days this summer, the Commerce Department gave Anthropic ninety minutes to pull its two most powerful models offline — and then quietly let them back on. How did we end up with a de facto AI licensing regime without anyone actually passing one? For the first episode of The AI Power Podcast, Greg sits down with Adam Goodwin — former Senate staffer, Greg's old colleague
The biggest ever loophole in U.S. AI chip export controls on China? With Chris McGuire
For the first interview of the AI Power Podcast, Chris McGuire of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly of the White House National Security Council for a conversation on AI and Semiconductor export controls. A shocking release of updated Commerce Department guidance reveals that it has not been enforcing U.S. export controls on sales of AI chips to international subsidiaries of Chinese co
Trailer - What the AI Power Podcast is About
Welcome to The AI Power Podcast.AI is reshaping every dimension of national power — semiconductors, defense, economic policy, geopolitics. The decisions being made right now will define the next century.Hosted by Gregory C. Allen — founder of Decision Tree Research, former director of the Wadhwani AI Center at CSIS, and host of the original AI Policy Podcast — The AI Power Podcast tackles the poli
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