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Yuan Yang

@yuanfenyang
72 posts
2023-11-02
The UK #AISafetySummit is absurdly Chinese: journalists are put in a media centre so can't bump into other attendees & must be accompanied by a govt handler when walking around. If leaders & tech execs are so afraid of our questions, what hope for transparency on AI's impacts?
2023-11-02 View on X
Wired

The Office of Management and Budget releases draft rules for US federal agencies to assess AI in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms

Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …

The UK #AISafetySummit is absurdly Chinese: journalists are put in a media centre so can't bump into other attendees & must be accompanied by a govt handler when walking around. If leaders & tech execs are so afraid of our questions, what hope for transparency on AI's impacts?
2023-11-02 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries and the EU, and the US announces an AI Safety Institute

from government to civil society to the private sector — must work together to build a future where AI creates opportunity, advances equity, and protects fundamental rights and fre...

2023-11-01
Our @FT exclusive today: Chinese academic attendees of the UK's AI summit, together with a group of US, Canadian + int'l academics, want strict regulation of frontier AI models bc of existential risk concerns https://www.ft.com/...
2023-11-01 View on X
TechCrunch

At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute

The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together …

Our @FT exclusive today: Chinese academic attendees of the UK's AI summit, together with a group of US, Canadian + int'l academics, want strict regulation of frontier AI models bc of existential risk concerns https://www.ft.com/...
2023-11-01 View on X
Financial Times

Ahead of the UK's AI summit, Chinese scientists warned of AI's “existential risk to humanity”; the UK announces that South Korea will host the next AI Summit

Attendees of Bletchley Park gathering convened by UK premier Rishi Sunak warn of ‘existential risk to humanity’

2023-08-03
“To leverage our position, it is about advanced packaging and design,” the UK tech minister said, arguing the UK should be an “integral part” of the global chips supply chain rather than compete for manufacturing — story today by @CristinaCriddle @ft https://t.co/...
2023-08-03 View on X
Financial Times

As the UK announces its National Semiconductor Strategy advisory panel, tech minister Paul Scully says the country plans to focus on chip design over subsidies

story today by @CristinaCriddle @ft https://t.co/... Luke / @l_account0 : UK's tech minister admits that “we are not going to recreate Taiwan in south Wales”. Well yes - this shoul...

2023-01-18
part 2: “Apple can't diversify..."China is going to dominate labour and tech production for another 20 years." @ft https://www.ft.com/...
2023-01-18 View on X
Financial Times

As Apple shifts from China, experts worry India will struggle with iPhone production due to supply chain issues, labor woes, a lack of automation, and more

The tech giant increasingly finds itself beholden to America's biggest geopolitical rival.  But is diversification even possible?

2022-11-26
Today the UK government told its departments to stop using Chinese video surveillance equipment in “sensitive” sites & to consider stripping them out altogether...1/ https://www.ft.com/...
2022-11-26 View on X
CNN

The UK government asks its departments to stop installing Chinese surveillance cameras at sensitive sites, after calls to ban devices from Hikvision and Dahua

Hong Kong CNN Business —  Hikvision, a leading Chinese surveillance company, has denied suggestions that it poses a threat …

2021-06-19
Alibaba has over 250,000 staff. The Chinese government antitrust bureau that is taking on the tech giants had 50 staff as of March. It's spotted an opportunity to grow its size and influence. My analysis today @ft https://www.ft.com/...
2021-06-19 View on X
Financial Times

As China ramps up scrutiny of its tech companies, experts say its antitrust regulator SAMR lacks resources; SAMR only had a staff of about 50 people as of March

The country's previously dormant antitrust regulators are fighting for power to discipline the sector Tweets: @martijnrasser , @angelazhanghk , @financialtimes , and @yuanfenyang T...

2021-06-14
3/ In recent years, new ways of complaining about work and management have entered the Chinese lexicon: 996, involution (neijuan), PUA. In an internal memo, Alibaba acknowledged the “immense” dispute over its ‘forced ranking’ system and promised to relax it
2021-06-14 View on X
Financial Times

A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture

2/ Thanks to all the tech workers who spoke to me and @QianerLiu, often late at night after work. “When we consider why some products succeed, it's not necessarily because they have better technology...it's because they simply have more people labouring away,” said one
2021-06-14 View on X
Financial Times

A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture

China's tech giants have grown at breakneck speed. But their young professional staff are increasingly unhappy with how they're managed. Our @FTMag cover piece this weekend takes you inside the lives of China's self-styled “code peasants” — w @QianerLiu https://www.ft.com/...
2021-06-14 View on X
Financial Times

A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture

2021-06-13
China's tech giants have grown at breakneck speed. But their young professional staff are increasingly unhappy with how they're managed. Our @FTMag cover piece this weekend takes you inside the lives of China's self-styled “code peasants” — w @QianerLiu https://www.ft.com/...
2021-06-13 View on X
Financial Times

A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture

By the time he arrived at Alibaba, Tim had been working to get there for years.  Raised in a small town in Zhejiang province … Tweets: @yuanfenyang , @gaberivera , @mollymckew , @j...

3/ In recent years, new ways of complaining about work and management have entered the Chinese lexicon: 996, involution (neijuan), PUA. In an internal memo, Alibaba acknowledged the “immense” dispute over its ‘forced ranking’ system and promised to relax it
2021-06-13 View on X
Financial Times

A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture

By the time he arrived at Alibaba, Tim had been working to get there for years.  Raised in a small town in Zhejiang province … Tweets: @yuanfenyang , @gaberivera , @mollymckew , @j...

2/ Thanks to all the tech workers who spoke to me and @QianerLiu, often late at night after work. “When we consider why some products succeed, it's not necessarily because they have better technology...it's because they simply have more people labouring away,” said one
2021-06-13 View on X
Financial Times

A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture

By the time he arrived at Alibaba, Tim had been working to get there for years.  Raised in a small town in Zhejiang province … Tweets: @yuanfenyang , @gaberivera , @mollymckew , @j...

2021-04-12
Will China, EU, or US be the first to rein in its tech giants? Our @ft analysis of the antitrust issues facing China after yday's record fine. While some firms are practising “pre-emptive compliance”, one official said he expected gestures of obedience. https://www.ft.com/...
2021-04-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Under intense pressure from China, Ant Group will become a financial holding company that is regulated more like a bank, among other changes

- Chinese regulators summoned Ant for meeting on April 12  — Ant to fold all financial operations into holding firm

Will China, EU, or US be the first to rein in its tech giants? Our @ft analysis of the antitrust issues facing China after yday's record fine. While some firms are practising “pre-emptive compliance”, one official said he expected gestures of obedience. https://www.ft.com/...
2021-04-12 View on X
Financial Times

Employees at Tencent Music, Meituan, and other Chinese tech giants are expecting increased antitrust scrutiny and penalties after Alibaba's record $2.8B fine

Yuan Yang / Financial Times : Tweets: @davidinglestv and @yuanfenyang See also Mediagazer Tweets: David Ingles / @davidinglestv : Alibaba's record fine in context. $2.8 billion is...

2020-12-26
There's US China sanctions, and then there are all the third parties caught in the middle. As one European tech exec said to me: it's easy to see sanctions as an “America First” trade policy when US firms get licences first. My latest w @QianerLiu @ft https://www.ft.com/...
2020-12-26 View on X
Financial Times

European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies

Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies  —  European tech executives …

2020-12-25
There's US China sanctions, and then there are all the third parties caught in the middle. As one European tech exec said to me: it's easy to see sanctions as an “America First” trade policy when US firms get licences first. My latest w @QianerLiu @ft https://www.ft.com/...
2020-12-25 View on X
Financial Times

European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies

Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies  —  European tech executives … Tweets: @anupamchander , @pastynome , @j_b_c16 , @chadbow...

2020-12-09
Just out from @cdcshepherd @hrw: another leaked list of 2,000 Uighur Muslim detainees shows how China's so-called “predictive policing” system flags people as suspicious for calling international numbers, or having relatives abroad @ft https://www.ft.com/...
2020-12-09 View on X
Washington Post

An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs

2020-11-10
Three iPhone launches ago, Apple said it would get rid of illegal student labour in its supply chain. Here's the investigation I did into Foxconn Zhengzhou in 2017. Again, I'm amazed that a $2tn company and its entire supplier management team apparently need us to tell them... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple suspends new business with key supplier Pegatron after discovering violations of labor rules related to a student worker program