Plus, President Trump and federal spending, and climate-accountable planning.
| DeepSeek shows the limits of US export controls on AI chips Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released a set of open-source large language models (LLMs) that the company claims were trained using only a fraction of the computing power needed to train some of the top U.S.-made LLMs. If DeepSeek’s claims regarding training costs are accurate, the company’s achievements underscore how U.S. chip export control rules can in some respects have the opposite of their intended effect, writes John Villasenor. |
| More research and commentary Can the president freeze federal spending? On a new episode of The Current, Molly Reynolds discusses the Trump administration’s first steps to try to dramatically remake the size and scope of the federal government and the differences between executive authority and congressional authority. Climate-accountable planning. With a Republican trifecta in power in the federal government, climate commitments from recent legislation are under threat and what felt like a historic shift could be short-lived. Adie Tomer and Ben Swedberg explain where climate-related transportation planning is today and what states can do if federal support recedes. |
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