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China has built a supercomputer that sidesteps American GPU export bans entirely. The LineShine system, housed in Shenzhen, delivers one point five four exaflops of performance using two point four million Huawei-designed Armv9 CPU cores and not a single GPU in sight. It's a significant signal that hardware restrictions may be accelerating Chinese self-sufficiency rather than slowing it down.
That story connects to a broader picture emerging from the Wall Street Journal, which reports that Beijing's industrial policy now touches virtually every sector of its economy simultaneously. The argument is that coordinated state investment across manufacturing, energy, and technology is producing compounding advantages that market-driven economies are struggling to match at comparable speed or scale.
On a very different scale, the creator of OpenClaw ran up a one point three million dollar bill with OpenAI in a single month. Six hundred three billion tokens, seven point six million API requests, all generated by roughly one hundred coding agents running in parallel. It's a vivid illustration of how quickly AI infrastructure costs can escape even an attentive developer's control.
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