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Start free trial →Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026
The group was discussing likely crackdowns on Chinese models and researchers after the Nvidia affair. Dave argues AI is the first technology that is both a national economic engine and a top weapon, which is why the stakes feel unprecedented.
…spying or transmitting. Or it's just so easy to transmit. Once something's connected to the internet, it's so easy to encode things in all kinds of bizarre timing ways. I think Ahmad was talking about that on one of the prior pods. It's just so leaky. So yeah, anything regulated, anything research.
There's never been anything
like this, Peter. This is like unique in human history because, yeah, nuclear research, weapons research is highly, highly regulated, highly watched, but it's not an economic driver for the country. Here you have the biggest industry for driving the wealth of your nation combined with the biggest military weapon of all time, all in the same tiny little file that fits on a thumb drive. I mean, nothing has ever been this big of a flashpoint. We saw the
encampments for Japanese Americans back in World War II. I hope we don't start to see that happening here.
I don't think, I'm not quite even sure what we're talking about here. I don't see anyone suggesting nation of origin or ethnic-based anything relating to frontier labs. I think the Jensen Huang story, on the face of it, is the story of espionage, targeting apparently CEO of a prominent company…
not going there. I'm saying, sort of by analogy, requiring the frontier labs not to employ individuals of ethnic origin from China.