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THE SWELL #16
SAIL Weekly Digest May 4–8, 2026 | Issue #16
May 8
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We Spent 10 Days Touring Chinese AI Labs. Here’s What We Saw.
Sleeping Cots, Robot Pharmacies, and the Race for AGI
May 8
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Lily Ottinger
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Kai Williams
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Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
May 7
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Nathan Lambert
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I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”
Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations.
May 6
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Timothy B. Lee
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Ken Liu on AI and Freedom
this show was such a treat
May 6
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Jordan Schneider
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Phoebe Chow
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Irene Zhang
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