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Fmr. Senator Cory Gardner: why the AI race is won on boring infrastructure and how China wins by making America hate AI
Summation with Auren Hoffman
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Summation with Auren Hoffman
Fmr. Senator Cory Gardner: why the AI race is won on boring infrastructure and how China wins by making America hate AI
Aug 18, 2026
Cory Gardner is a former U.S. Senator and Congressman from Colorado and was one of the Senate's leading Taiwan and China experts, chairing the Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and authoring the Taipei Act. He is now president and CEO of NCTA, the Internet & Television Association, whose members built the nation's largest broadband platform.
In this episode of Summation, Cory and Auren discuss:
- Why the AI race gets won on spectrum, fiber, and memory chips
- The bottleneck raising the price of your iPhone, PlayStation, and router
- Why an open society is vulnerable to a campaign to turn Americans against AI
- What a China expert thinks about our dependence on chips made off China's coast
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Cory Gardner on X at @CoryGardner
