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Trump and Xi may put AI risk talks on their May 14-15 Beijing summit agenda, US media reports said. The US and China are considering launching formal AI dialogue channels ahead of the Trump-Xi summit scheduled for May 14 and…
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Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a television news anchor on allegations of receiving cryptocurrency payments from a Chinese operative to produce politically influenced content and obtain classified military information from serving and former officers. According to the Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors’…
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Box Elder County commissioners approved Kevin O’Leary’s 9GW Stratos AI campus in Utah on May 4, amid loud public protests from hundreds of local residents. Box Elder County commissioners in Utah voted unanimously on May 4 to approve the Stratos…
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New York secured a $5M Uphold settlement over CredEarn, saying users were misled on crypto savings risks and false insurance claims in 2020.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee on April 30 that the Pentagon is running classified Bitcoin programs on two operational tracks — enabling the technology and countering it — and that those efforts provide the United…
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A Chinese court has ruled that companies cannot legally dismiss employees solely to replace them with cost-saving artificial intelligence tools, setting a clear boundary on how far firms can go in using automation to reduce labour costs. On April 30,…
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced two bipartisan bills on April 23 that would give Congress direct oversight authority over US AI chip exports to China and other adversaries, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration’s handling of advanced…
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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios circulated a memo on April 23 accusing Chinese entities of conducting deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil and steal US frontier AI systems, using tens of thousands of proxy accounts…
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model on April 24, explicitly optimized for Huawei’s Ascend chip platform, on the same day the White House accused China of running industrial-scale campaigns to copy and steal American frontier…
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White House says China-linked firms used proxy accounts and jailbreaks to copy US AI models through unauthorized distillation.
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Alibaba has rolled out a preview of its most advanced AI model yet, stepping up its push into the top tier of global AI development. According to an X post from Alibaba’s Qwen team, the new model, Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview, has…
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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index shows the performance gap between US and Chinese AI models has compressed to just 2.7%, down from a double-digit lead as recently as 2023, as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 holds a 39-point Elo lead over ByteDance’s…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China possesses the massive computing power and infrastructure necessary to match the capabilities of Anthropic’s high-level AI model, Claude Mythos. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast on Wednesday, Huang dismissed the idea that…
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Hormuz oil bitcoin dynamics shifted Tuesday as the Rich Starry, a Chinese-owned, U.S.-sanctioned tanker, slipped through the Strait of Hormuz in the first known breach of the U.S. naval blockade, sending WTI crude to $90.4 a barrel on April 15.…
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The AI report that the industry watches most closely landed Monday when Stanford HAI released its 2026 AI Index, revealing that the US performance lead over China has nearly evaporated, with Anthropic’s top model leading the nearest Chinese competitor by…
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Alibaba and China Telecom are moving ahead with a new data centre project in southern China, powered entirely by the e-commerce giant’s in-house AI chips, as Beijing steps up efforts to build domestic computing infrastructure. The facility, unveiled on Tuesday,…
