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2026-01-19 03:29 UTC
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2025 in pictures: Shaking up the world order
The year 2025 brought significant global changes with Donald Trump's comeback reshaping international discourse and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence sparking both hope and concern....
US moves for AI dominance to outpace China with new ‘overwhelming’ military strategy
The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announced an ambitious plan centered on achieving unequivocal superiority in artificial intelligence technology. The initiative aims to prevent adversaries l...
China’s Shenzhen targets AI in ‘every household’ as US tech rivalry heats up
Shenzhen, China’s premier technology hub, has unveiled plans to implement widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across households and businesses within the next five years. This strategy...
Pentagon's Annual Report on the Chinese Military
The U.S. Department of Defense has released its annual report detailing China’s military developments and activities. The report outlines significant military modernization efforts by China, including...
‘Pax Silica’: America’s new AI inner circle and Asia’s chosen few
The United States launched the 'Pax Silica' initiative aimed at structuring an exclusive AI supply chain with select countries, primarily Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. The US government signed a ...
Pentagon is embracing Musk’s Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
The Pentagon has announced its intent to implement Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot within the Department of Defense (DOD), making 'all appropriate data' from military IT systems available for artificial i...
Pentagon plans to implement AI from Elon Musk into its databases
The Pentagon is considering integrating artificial intelligence developed by Elon Musk's company Neuralink into their database systems. This move could significantly enhance data processing and securi...
US Department of Defense aims to transcend through AI and neuroscience
The US Department of Defense is looking into artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroscience research as part of its efforts to enhance military capabilities and achieve technological superiority over a...
Will Nvidia turbocharge China’s AI military?
The possibility of China gaining access to Nvidia's second-strongest AI processor could significantly enhance its military capabilities through an increase in computational power six times greater tha...
Elon Musk's AI 'Grok' Arrives at US Army: Will Simplify Military Operations
The United States Army has integrated Elon Musk's AI system named Grok into its operations aiming to simplify and enhance military operations through advanced artificial intelligence capabilities....
NIST, MITRE announce $20 million research effort on AI cybersecurity
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and The Mitre Corporation have launched an ambitious research initiative worth $20 million to explore the impact of artificial intelligence...
SoftBank lifts OpenAI stake to 11% with $41 billion investment
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank has increased its financial commitment to AI research organization OpenAI by completing the second tranche of a planned $40 billion investment, bringing it up to $22.5 b...
Army stands up AI, machine-learning career field for officers
The United States Army is developing a new career field focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning exclusively for officers, with plans to potentially expand the program to warrant o...
UK regulator launches probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s ‘disgusting’ sexualised AI imagery
The UK's media regulator has initiated an investigation into Elon Musk’s X platform regarding reports that the Grok AI chatbot is being used to generate and share potentially illegal sexually intimate...
China vital to Insilico’s plan to build biotech’s AI ‘Einstein’ for drug discovery
Biotech firm Insilico Medicine aims to create an AI system akin to 'digital Einstein' to revolutionize drug discovery processes. The company seeks to further expand its operations within China, levera...
The US Is Selling H200 AI Chips to China – So Why Isn’t China Buying?
China faces a dilemma with the purchase of U.S.-made H200 AI chips. Despite their availability, there are indications that China prefers reducing its reliance on American technology over acquiring the...
China’s Sugon unveils new AI infrastructure to rival platforms from Nvidia and Huawei
Chinese supercomputer manufacturer Sugon has introduced an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure for data centers that aims to compete with platforms from Nvidia and Huawei Technologies...
Navy F-35 pilots train to wield drones with touchscreen tablets
Navy F-35 pilots are undergoing training to use autonomous unmanned systems with artificial intelligence as 'loyal wingmen'. These drone systems can be controlled via touchscreen tablets....
Repeat after me: Never, ever underestimate China.
A significant percentage of top AI researchers globally completed their undergraduate education in China, with 47% of the world’s leading AI scientists hailing from Chinese universities compared to 18...
Hegseth: Pentagon Embracing Musk's Grok AI Chatbot
The Pentagon is reportedly integrating Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, into its operations according to a source named Hegseth....
Pentagon Embracing Chatbots
The Pentagon is reportedly moving towards integrating advanced artificial intelligence systems, particularly chatbots, into its operations....
The White House Risks Squandering Its Own AI Leadership
The article discusses the potential policy reversal by the Trump administration regarding the GAIN AI Act, aiming to lobby against it despite aligning with stated objectives of leveraging American tec...
Elon Musk blasts ‘prison island’ UK in showdown over Grok AI sexual images
Elon Musk criticized the UK government for threatening to restrict access to X due to sexualized images of women and children generated by his Grok AI tool. He accused the UK of being fascist, suppres...
Is the Development of AI Really a "Race"?
Sam Roggeveen ponders whether the competition between the U.S. and China in artificial intelligence development can be described as an existential struggle or just another technological race....
How physics AI is transforming the future of space engineering
In an episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto discusses with Juan Alonso, CTO and Co-founder of Luminary Cloud and professor at Stanford University, about the transformative impact of artificial in...
DeepSeek kicks off 2026 with paper signalling push to train bigger models for less
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a technical paper in 2026 advocating for architectural changes to make training foundational AI models more cost-efficient against U.S. competitors. The proposed 'Man...
Slop, vibe coding and glazing: AI altering the global lexicon
The article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting the evolution of the global vocabulary through new terms such as 'slop', 'vibe coding' and 'glazing'. It highlights that words of th...