Clips

Short, shareable highlights pulled from full Groong episodes.

China Is an Enabling Power, Not an Extractive One Ep 587
Warwick Powell defines China as an enabling power that funds infrastructure, training, and open source models with very few strings, not an extractive hegemon.
Energy Is the Real Bottleneck for AI Ep 587
Warwick Powell argues energy, not chips, is the foundational bottleneck for AI, warning that hyperscale data centers are creating an electricity have and have-not divide.
How Beijing Really Sees TRIPP and the Middle Corridor Ep 587
Warwick Powell on why Beijing stays relaxed about TRIPP and the Middle Corridor, and how the risk of any route becoming a chokepoint is managed by keeping alternatives.
The Poison Pills in U.S. Tech Deals With Small States Ep 587
Warwick Powell on the poison pill clauses in U.S. tech deals that lock smaller states into a single ecosystem, using Malaysia as a case with lessons for Armenia.
Why the American AI Business Model Collapsed Ep 587
Warwick Powell explains how DeepSeek's open source model broke the proprietary American AI moat and why safety talk now doubles as commercial cover.
AI Chips for 99 Years of Armenian Territory Ep 585
A Wall Street Journal report says the U.S. dangled NVIDIA AI chips to get Armenia to sign the TRIPP corridor. The hosts weigh revocable chips against a 99-year deal.
Arrest, No Basis, Release: The Pashinyan Pattern Ep 585
Artsakh analyst Alen Ghevondyan was jailed over Facebook posts, then freed months later as a court dismissed the case. The hosts call it a repeating pattern.
Azerbaijan Mocks Armenian Manuscript With Blank Pages Ep 585
At Gandzasar, an Azerbaijani official held up a blank-paged replica of an Armenian manuscript and called it empty, as European diplomats smiled.
France Launched Azerbaijan's Satellites, Used Against Armenia Ep 585
As Pashinyan attends a Paris space summit, Hovik notes France helped build and launch Azerbaijan's satellites, later used against Armenia in war.