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Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips

In July, I sat among roughly 100 people in a packed conference room in Taipei as a speaker highlighted the industrial parks and tax rates of an American city nearly...

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona.
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GoPro and Roomba were U.S. pioneers. Chinese rivals now dominate

After moving to Taiwan and taking up scuba diving, I recently started shopping for an underwater camera. What began as a simple search quickly turned into an exploration of the...

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A customer experiences the Osmo Pocket 4 camera at a DJI store in Shanghai, China, on April 20, 2026. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Can open-source beat OpenAI?

As the U.S. and China battle for artificial intelligence supremacy, a fundamental divide in engineering philosophy could determine the winner. While American pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic favor a closed-source...

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