Why China Is More Secretive About Its Supercomputers

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Chinese scientists have become more secretive about their supercomputer development. These machines are essential to improving artificial intelligence, developing vaccines, and predicting hurricanes. But now it’s harder to determine whether China or the U.S. has the fastest supercomputers. WSJ reporter Stu Woo joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss how this happened. Plus, everyday crypto investors are donating their digital currencies to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday July 25th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:28.6	Donald Trump has embraced crypto of late, becoming the first major party presidential
0:34.0	candidate to accept campaign donations in
0:36.7	cryptocurrencies. We're going to hear about the individual investors who jumped in hoping
0:41.8	to encourage Trump's burgeoning support for the digital
0:44.8	assets.
0:45.8	And then, new secrecy around technological developments is making it harder for the U.S. government
0:51.8	to answer a question it deems essential to national security.
0:56.0	Does the US or China have faster supercomputers?
1:00.0	W.S.J. reporters Stu Wu will join us to discuss.
1:08.0	But first, there is an often repeated rule that many crypto fans live by, huddle, or hold on for dear life.
1:17.6	Slag for don't give up your crypto even when markets go haywire.
1:22.4	Yet dozens of everyday investors are parting with their digital currencies,
1:26.8	donating it to former President Donald Trump's campaign
1:30.4	after he became the first major party presidential candidate to accept
1:34.4	crypto donations in May. Our reporter Caitlin Ostrov has been speaking to some of
1:38.9	them and she joins us now. So Caitlin what have these investors said about why they're donating their
1:44.4	crypto to Trump? Yeah, a lot of these people got into crypto many years ago for
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