The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2026-07-07 · 50 min · 7,752 words

China Decode: Ballistic Missile Test, Europe's AC Addiction, and China's AI Coding Challenger

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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. My concern is that because the Chinese models are open source, it will not be Chinese models used in China and US models used in the US. It'll be Chinese models used in China and everywhere else in the world and US models used in the US. It's possible the US may try to corral European countries into using only US models, for that would be a big heavy lifting operation if the US was to try to do that.

Well welcome to China Decode. I'm Alice Han. And I'm James King. In today's episode of China Decode, we're discussing China test firing a ballistic missile with a dummy warhead into the Pacific, a Chinese AI model that rivals Anthropic. and a new ethnic unity law drawing criticism.

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