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Paul Mozur

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Cover tech and geopolitics for the New York Times. Email pmozur at nytimes.com. Check out my past work at www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur

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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Our latest on the global AI boom looks at how Saudi Arabia is trying to turn is billions in oil wealth into a real advantage in AI. The calculation is that AI is one of the few businesses that give it the same geopolitical sway that its energy resources have. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/t...
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Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Chile is not generally a place that gets much attention from the tech world. But the way it has been dealing with AI and the massive build out in data centers should. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
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How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
When a Microsoft data center opened next to the small Mexican town of La Esperanza, locals say electricity outages and water shortages grew severe. The local doctor rushed patients a half hour to the nearest hospital when blackouts cut off his oxygen concentrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Our newest AI investigation opens in a Taipei bar where Chinese exec Alice Huang toasted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Her company soon began receiving billions in AI chips. Now her firm is being investigated by the U.S. government for selling those chips on to China. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...
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A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The Trump family got a $2 billion deposit into their crypto company, the United Arab Emirates got a huge amount of restricted AI chips despite security concerns. Our story about how how business is being done, and influence gained, in the second Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · 25/06/2025
“Oil-producing countries have had an oversized influence on international affairs; in an A.I.-powered near future, compute producers could have something similar since they control access to a critical resource,” Prof Vili Lehdonvirta told @paulmozur.bsky.social, @nytimes.com.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A new A.I. divide is forming. As the biggest companies and richest countries scramble for GPUs, much of the world is being left behind. It's a new type of inequality that will go a long way to determining development in the coming years. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The US' largest private prison operator, Geo Group, also runs one of its largest immigrant surveillance programs. Now, ICE is using the privately run system to track and deport growing numbers of people. 200k are currently in the system. Geo expects it to grow. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...
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How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Good piece in China Talk @jordanschneider.bsky.social I’ve been trying to hit these points in our recent DeepSeek stories. Its approach is very against the grain for China tech. Completely opposed to the grueling hours/top-down ethic that typify big tech in China www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseeks-...
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Jon Ostrower @jonostrower.com · 30/01/2025
If confirmed as a commercial airliner in the Potomac, this mid-air collision at DCA would be the worst U.S. air disaster since the Colgan Air Q400 crash near Buffalo in 2009.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A short explainer on Liang Wenfeng. It is amazing how much he does NOT sound like a Chinese tech boss. In the context of China's grueling tech work environment he sounds downright hippyish: "Everyone has their own unique journey and brings their own ideas with them, so there’s no need to push them."
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Who Is Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of the A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek?
The Chinese company DeepSeek seemed to have come out of nowhere this week when it upturned markets. Here’s what to know about Liang Wenfeng, the engineer who started it.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin
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Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statements after President Trump froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers, among other safety-critical positions.
"The bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 directs the Administration to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers. That's what the law says, so the Administration must rescind this ridiculous executive order," Ranking Member Larsen said. "Hiring air traffic controllers is the number one safety issue according to the entire aviation industry. Instead of working to improve aviation safety and lower costs for hardworking American families, the Administration is choosing to spread bogus DEl claims to justify this decision. I'm not surprised by the President's dangerous and divisive actions, but the Administration must reverse course. Let's get back to aviation safety and allow the FAA to do its job protecting the flying public."
"Our top priority must be the safety of the flying public so an order freezing the hiring of air traffic controllers is a misguided decision and goes against the directives of our
FAA Reauthorization bill," Ranking Member Cohen said. "The aviation community will speak with one voice in condemning this short-sighted policy and reaffirm our
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
One of the interesting things about DeepSeek is that two creative constrictions created its advances. One is obviously U.S. chip restrictions. But the second was China's crackdown on speculative trading, which drove the company to put money into pure A.I. research. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
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How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star
The little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Nice profile showing how DeepSeek is an exception in China’s AI ecosystem. Yesterday, I wrote a similar piece on my substack, also highlighting how the company is an outlier in rather than a representation of the “China model” - you can read it here: highvalueadded.substack.com/p/deepseek-p...
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our profile of DeepSeek. There have been tons of hot takes, but it's valuable to understand the company's story. In many ways it's the exception to the AI ecosystem in China at the moment. While others chased quick returns, DeepSeek set its sites on real disruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
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How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star
The little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 27/01/2025
greatest city in the world
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‘I heard it pop’: Eagles fan details the moment a Center City bus shelter gave out beneath her and others
A bus shelter collapsing under the weight of several fans was captured on video and shared across social media. Three people were taken to the hospital, and one of them shared her story.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For anyone wanting to know more about Xinjiang/the Uyghur region I have made a starter pack of campaigners, academics and journalists who research and write about the region. It's still very incomplete - I'd be grateful for more suggestions! go.bsky.app/PWzGYxx
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
For years the U.S. has struggled to convince countries to shun Huawei and other China tech. Now it believes it has a way to do it, offer Nvidia chips in exchange. That's the basis of a new A.I. diplomacy emerging as a last gasp policy from the Biden Admin. Nvidia, caught in the middle, is not happy.
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Nvidia’s Global Chips Sales Could Collide With US-China Tensions
The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Probably not many remember Chinese chip investor Canyon Bridge, but it made waves with a bid for Lattice Semiconductor 7 years ago. The US blocked the deal. So Canyon Bridge bought UK based Imagination. US seems to have been justified. Knowledge transfer programs sent key IP to China AI chip firms.
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Chinese AI chip firms blacklisted over weapons concerns gained access to UK technology
Imagination Technologies had licences with two Chinese firms – but said it had not ‘implemented transactions’ that would enable the use of technology for military purposes
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Def some signaling happening with China's Taiwan Affairs Office suddenly warning about TSMC becoming the "American Semiconductor Manufacturing Company." TSMC's founder, Morris Chang, after all, is American. Since TSMC cut out Huawei, its loyalties have been clear. www.globaltimes.cn/page/202412/...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/12/2024
Manufacturers in China recently began limiting sales to the US and Europe of key components used to build unmanned aerial vehicles, according to multiple people with knowledge of the developments
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China Is Cutting Off Drone Supplies Critical to Ukraine War Effort
China’s escalating conflict with the US over trade is now extending to the drones that have become a vital part of Ukraine’s defense.
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Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
THREAD: How China is influencing local elections in New York City, mobilizing organizations via a local power broker known as "The King of Brooklyn" (布鲁克林之王)to ensure that candidates who voice sympathy for Taiwan, or for Hong Kong democracy, are either defeated or never get elected. (1/x)
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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
From Russia's Rybar TG channel - the importance of Syria is a key hub for Russian operations in Africa. Loss of Syria as a refueling and logistics point undermines all of Russian efforts on the continent.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
New footage from inside Sednaya Prison, filmed by IDA and sent to @nytimes.com, shows the grim conditions within: numbered cells with debris, crumbling walls and ceilings, family members looking for loved ones sifting through paper records. nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
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Footage shows a chaotic scene after rebels capture a notorious prison.
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The White Helmets are searching the Sandnaya compound, but haven't yet found any of the rumoured secret doors or hidden basements in the complex.
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Josh Chin @joshchin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Just out: The first Western media interview with South Korea’s opposition leader since the martial law debacle. He’s been compared with both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump:
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He Might Be South Korea’s Next President. All He Has to Do Is Impeach the Current One.
Following the short-lived attempt by President Yoon Suk Yeol to impose martial law, opposition leader Lee Jae-myung is now within striking distance of his nation’s top job.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Big news, China investigating Nvidia for violating antimonopoly law. Even with US export controls there’s a lot of revenue for Nvidia to lose in China. Another skirmish in the supply chain war. As we said last week, expect China to be aggressive in response to Trump. www.reuters.com/technology/c...
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
When Ukraine's government needed help fighting Russian disinfo on Telegram earlier this year, it turned to Apple. The platform, using the leverage of its app store, has had more influence on Telegram than anyone, even nation states.
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Ukraine Weighs Telegram Security Risks Amid War With Russia
The messaging app’s popularity has soared during the war with Russia, leading Ukrainian officials to increasingly weigh Telegram’s upsides against its security risks.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
My five recent favorite cultural things, from the NYT's what's in our queue feature. I am serious that my wife and I consider beating the Elden Ring DLC one of our biggest accomplishments of the year.
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What’s in Our Queue? ‘Elden Ring’ and More
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Dana Hull @danahull.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I don't think Ben Taub is on here but his New Yorker piece on The Assad Files will always stick with me. (And horray, for the ability to easily post links to deeply reported journalism!) www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Exposing Assad’s War Crimes
The top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Having covered the secretive prisons of Xinjiang, the liberations from Syria's Saydnaya prison are crushingly powerful. A place of torture and execution so secretive Amnesty Int'l used forensic architects to build a virtual model has been thrown open in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysgn...
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Inside Saydnaya: Syria's Torture Prison
YouTube video by Amnesty International
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Notch another victory for the drone as asymmetric weapon of our era. As HTS rebels take Damascus, a celebratory photo pays tribute to the Shaheen, a suicide drone used in the campaign. Built with 3-D printers in Idlib, inspired by Iran/Russian drones, it’s another example of the power of cheap tech.
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Huizhong Wu @huizhong-wu.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
China just announced it is investigating Miao Hua, a member of the powerful Central Military Commission, of serious violations of discipline. He outranks the defense minister apnews.com/article/chin...
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A high-ranking military official in China is under investigation
China's Defense Ministry says a a high-ranking military official is under investigation. The official is Miao Hua, who is director of the political work department on the powerful Central Military Com...
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
4. But the problem is that the U.S. is not the only actor that can play this game. According to a new NYT article by Alexandra Stevenson and @paulmozur.bsky.social China has prepped itself by discovering its own chokepoints - crucial inputs that it will deny to US producers in "supply chain warfare"
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China Has a New Playbook to Counter Trump: ‘Supply Chain Warfare’
A series of swipes at American companies show how China could take the initiative in a new trade war, using its economic dominance to exact pain.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A Trump trade war 2.0 could look very different from 4 years ago. One big difference? China is ready to punch back. It's less reliant on the U.S. and has new weapons. Its control of supply chains gives great leverage. A swipe at US drone maker Skydio shows the power. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
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China Has a New Playbook to Counter Trump: ‘Supply Chain Warfare’
A series of swipes at American companies show how China could take the initiative in a new trade war, using its economic dominance to exact pain.
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Peter S. Goodman @petersgoodman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Faced with the next wave of Trump tariffs, China is preparing to respond by weaponizing the supply chain. Powerful reporting from my colleagues Alex Stevenson and @paulmozur.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
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China Has a New Playbook to Counter Trump: ‘Supply Chain Warfare’
A series of swipes at American companies show how China could take the initiative in a new trade war, using its economic dominance to exact pain.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As long as humans have laid cables on the sea floor, other humans have tried to cut them, as this article reminds, with an anecdote the U.S. cutting telegraphic lines during the Spanish-American war. Would be stunning if Chinese ship Yi Peng cut the Baltic cables. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Wire cutters: how the world’s vital undersea data cables are being targeted
Carrying 99% of the world’s international telecommunications, the vulnerable lines are drawing nefarious interest
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Always a huge grain of salt with SCMP's "Chinese scientist's develop X" formulation, but this is a clear indication China is learning from the drone innovations in Ukraine, where ideas to mount guns on quadcopters with AI aim assist have already been floating around. www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
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‘Recoilless AK-47’ that can be used by most drones built by Chinese scientists
‘Multiple tests have confirmed effectiveness’ of automatic rifle with almost no recoil specifically designed for unmanned warfare.
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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
First hot take on a new social network: international baseball needs to happen more. It’s Taiwan v Japan in the finals of the WBSC at the Tokyo Dome and the atmosphere is electric. Got dudes going headfirst into first. Fan chants booming. Half of Taiwan is watching. National honor on the line.
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