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Co-founder and CEO, Lazlo Intelligence | https://nitter.gq/t.co/GBkRPVEgrg

Joined February 2017
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Horrible. "The Trump administration agreed to send around $35 million in military aid to a Central African military unit previously accused of war crimes...[including] subjecting detainees to beatings and drownings and torturing some detainees to death." wsj.com/world/africa/trumps-…
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An unfamiliar company gets easier to understand when you can see who supplies it and who it works with. Lazlo maps those commercial relationships back to public sources. A starting point for deciding where to look next. lazlointelligence.com
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Which one do you prefer when testing out a new SaaS product? Regardless of industry or software type - on average. Freemium = limited features, forever Free trial = full features, limited time
67%Freemium
33%Free trial
3 votes • Final results
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In 2023, a former Samsung executive was accused of stealing factory designs to build a rival plant in Xi'an. Now Samsung is upgrading its Xi'an plant to make more advanced chips. What has changed in how it protects that technology? reuters.com/world/china/sams…
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ChatGPT can't create images of trade between countries because it is too sensitive. I guess visualizing how the global economy operates is triggering for some people? #chatgpt "Even neutral concepts like trade or tech export between countries are often flagged"
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I should clarify that this is DALL-E, not all ChatGPT models.
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Exclusive: Chinese drone experts have flown to Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at a state-owned weapons manufacturer that is under Western sanctions reut.rs/3VBIQLr
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This week, The Spy Hunter newsletter tracks the projects, partners, and publications of the Seven Sons of National Defense from the past month. #china #academia #defense #research #aerospace #AI thespyhunter.substack.com/p/…
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🚨 Governments remain ignorant to the threat posed by dependence on 🇨🇳 cellular IoT modules in our critical national infrastructure Warns Charles Parton OBE, Chief Adviser to our #ChinaObservatory in @fDiIntelligence bit.ly/48gb8Cz
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"Over the five years through 2023, Taiwanese authorities launched 110 investigations trade secret leaks, up 31% from the previous five years." asia.nikkei.com/business/tec…
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Oh China Daily, you are a funny one. "In a seminar held in Beijing on Saturday, scholars emphasized the importance of maintaining the post-World War II international order and respecting territorial sovereignty."🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 chinadaily.com.cn/a/202508/2…
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Huawei is deepening its connections to China's PLA-linked research institutes with an incubation center at Beihang University. cctime.com/html/2025-9-16/17…
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“Last week, Kim Jong Un joined the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Russian President Vladimir Putin at a military parade in Beijing, signalling these countries' tacit acceptance of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and treatment of its citizens.” bbc.com/news/articles/ckgqdz…
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Everyone saw the parade, but the real story was off stage: 22 Russia-China deals in energy, space, media & more, many tied to sanctioned entities. This week, The Spy Hunter tracks how new #China and #Russia projects are sidestepping sanctions. thespyhunter.substack.com/p/…
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🚨 New deep dive from The Spy Hunter newsletter: China’s Torch Center is more than an innovation hub. It’s a state-run pipeline linking R&D, industry, and Party objectives with global reach and high risks for foreign partners. Let’s unpack. 🧵
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12/ 💡 Bottom line: The Torch Center is not a neutral incubator. It’s an innovation-to-infiltration pipeline, tightly linked to China’s political and military agenda. Foreign firms engaging with it risk far more than they realize.
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To read more, check out this week's issue of The Spy Hunter on Substack. thespyhunter.substack.com/p/…
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