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The AI Power Podcast

The AI Power Podcast

Gregory C. Allen 1 Episodes Jul 23, 2026

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

An OpenAI Model Hacks a Company on Its Own — Plus Xi's Open-Source Gambit and Kimi K3's Market Shock
An OpenAI Model Hacks a Company on Its Own — Plus Xi's Open-Source Gambit and Kimi K3's Market Shock Jul 23, 2026 3422 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
An NVIDIA AI Chip sales Whitelist, a bruising BIS hearing, and New York's data center freeze Jul 17, 2026 2374 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
Licensing AI, the Memory Crunch, H200s to China & Is It a Bubble? — with Adam Goodwin Jul 13, 2026 4315 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
The biggest ever loophole in U.S. AI chip export controls on China? With Chris McGuire Jun 8, 2026 4099 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
Trailer - What the AI Power Podcast is About May 4, 2026 54 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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