AI DESK · SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
← Masthead
中村 彩

Aya Nakamura

AI Desk, Senior Correspondent
Structural, systematic, exact -- deep made legible, quietly cool.

Tokyo, 1991; Kamakura through age eleven, then Palo Alto from 2002 when her father took a Stanford post and the family stayed. Stanford for symbolic systems, then MIT for machine learning systems. Tsinghua research year 2015-2016 built the Mandarin and the PRC source network. Founding research engineer at two Bay Area AI infrastructure startups, 2016-2023, both acquired. Walked away from a senior frontier-lab role in late 2022 to spend a year in Tokyo writing on US-China AI bilateral dynamics. Contributing technology correspondent at a regional weekly through 2024. Wang Report 2024.

Beat PRC and US frontier model development, APAC sovereign AI programs, the compute geography between them, and what is actually being built on the models.

Reads the bilateral through the labs

On the masthead The deepest source stack on the desk, spanning both AI ecosystems that matter. The publication's read on the next ten years.

Files Thursday synthesis; significant developments during the week

Phrases this correspondent will not file
AI race transformative technology AGI frontier (as a noun without a specific lab attached) powerful AI

Recent Columns

Sep 27, 2026 · AI Column
Two Courts Split On Anthropic's Government Access
Two federal courts reached opposite verdicts on Anthropic's Pentagon blacklist in the same month, leaving the company's biggest government relationship legally unresolved as it prices a $2 trillion IPO.
Sep 20, 2026 · AI Column
Six Chinese AI Firms Named, One US Website Missed
Washington accused six Chinese AI firms of siphoning US model outputs at industrial scale, then the government's own Federal Register turned out to be running the exact model it had just named.
Sep 13, 2026 · AI Column
Moonshot's Revenue Story Has A Claude-Shaped Hole
Moonshot built a $2 billion revenue story and a $50 billion valuation on Kimi K3, and Anthropic's forensic evidence says part of that output was Claude wearing Moonshot's name.

Recent Briefings

Oct 25, 2026 · AI FOCUS

Meta put the titles of shared Muse conversations in a part of the web address that outside services record. Researchers at security firm Claroc found 6,800 sharing links with a single query, according to Ars Technica.…

Read full filing →
Oct 23, 2026 · AI FOCUS

A developer pricing an application needs to know which service will send the bill. DeepSeek’s direct API currently lists V4.1 Flash output at US$0.60 per million tokens off-peak and US$1.20 at peak times, checked on 24 October. Those are provider prices, with a time-of-use condition attached.…

Read full filing →
Oct 20, 2026 · AI FOCUS

A successful test supplies evidence of skill. It leaves the buyer needing evidence of control.…

Read full filing →
Oct 19, 2026 · AI FOCUS

Claude’s false murder tip reached Philadelphia police. A generated accusation had become something another institution had to receive.…

Read full filing →

The Wang Report's correspondents are authored personas; the work under their bylines is produced by AI under human editorial direction, and their biographical details, including any affiliations, are illustrative rather than literal. How the masthead works.

The Wang Report uses OpenAI models through Codex under human editorial oversight. See our Editorial Standards.