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🚫 Big Ban: China’s Chip Dreams Hit Wall
ALSO: YC Fuels 70 New AI Startups & AI Learns From 600-Year Books!
Golam Rabbani
June 16, 2025
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Today’s Insights:
Taiwan Blocks Huawei & SMIC
YC Fuels 70 New AI Startups
AI Learns From 600-Year Books
5 Hand-Picked AI Tools
Prompt: Emotional Resilience Coach
5 Hand-Picked Resources & Guides
Read Time: Under 4 minutes
NEWS
Big Ban: China’s Chip Dreams Hit Wall
What's the story:
Taiwan just added China’s tech giants Huawei and SMIC to its export control list, meaning companies need special permission to sell them high-tech goods.
Key Takeaways:
Taiwan sees Huawei and SMIC as national security risks.
Exporting to them now requires government approval.
They're grouped with banned entities like the Taliban.
Taiwan is home to TSMC, a top chipmaker used by Nvidia.
This move targets China's chip and AI ambitions.
Why It’s Important:
This ban is a big blow to China’s efforts to build powerful AI chips. It also shows how tech and politics are deeply connected in today’s global chip war.
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NEWS
YC Fuels 70 New AI Startups
What's the story:
Y Combinator is investing $500,000 in each of 70 AI start-ups, spotlighting agentic AI as the hot new frontier in tech innovation.
Key Takeaways:
YC’s Spring 2025 batch includes 70 AI-focused start-ups.
Each startup gets $500K and joins a 3-month accelerator.
Standout projects include AI for CRM, testing, and store management.
Dalton Caldwell steps down; new general partners are in.
YC criticizes Google for harming start-up competition.
Why It’s Important:
This massive investment shows how fast agentic AI is growing—and how Y Combinator is shaping the future by backing tools that could automate everything from hiring to space comms.
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NEWS
AI Learns From 600-Year Books
What's the story:
OpenAI and Microsoft are teaming up with Harvard to train AI using nearly 1 million books — some dating back to the 1400s — to give machines a deeper, more accurate understanding of human knowledge.
Key Takeaways:
Harvard’s historic library is sharing 394 million scanned pages with AI researchers.
The books cover 254 languages and go back over 600 years.
This public domain data avoids copyright issues facing other AI training sets.
The project aims to improve AI’s accuracy, reasoning, and cultural understanding.
Libraries get funding and visibility, while tech companies get richer training data.
Why It’s Important:
This partnership could make future AI systems smarter and more trustworthy by grounding them in centuries of real human knowledge — not just Reddit posts and internet chatter. It's a rare win-win for both tech and tradition.
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֎ PROMPT OF THE DAY
Emotional Resilience Coach
Prompt: As a personal emotional resilience coach, your role is to help me build inner strength, self-awareness, and the tools needed to bounce back from setbacks. You will guide me in identifying emotional patterns, reframing negative thoughts, and creating daily habits that support mental well-being. Your responses should be empathetic, supportive, and grounded in psychological principles. Start by asking me what recent event has shaken my confidence.
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Signing off,
Until next time,
Golam Rabbani - AI Educator, Founder & Investor
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