Kazakhstan presented its digital initiatives, including the Data Center Valley in Ekibastuz, at the Digital Central Asia International Cooperation Forum in Beijing on July 3, part of the Global Digita…
Meta faces two core problems: an advertising-dependent business model and massive AI infrastructure costs without a direct monetization path. The company's failed acquisition of enterprise AI firm Man…
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, a debate over American decline versus China's rise intensifies, but the U.S. retains strong technological, military, and economic foundations. Despite…
Chinese firms operate, finance, or hold stakes in about one third of all ports in Africa and now control the software, automation, and AI tools that run the infrastructure, according to a study by the…
China launched a coast guard patrol east of Taiwan amid the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, escalating grey-zone tactics and raising market concerns over a potential military clash before 2027. The patro…
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel called Pope Leo XIV a 'Chinese communist agent' at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2026, after the pope released an encyclical pushing for global AI regulatio…
Chinese activist-artist Ai Weiwei opens his monumental exhibition 'Button Up!' at Factory International's Aviva Studios in Manchester, featuring large-scale works that explore themes of imperialism, d…
A United Nations report warns that the rapid spread of artificial intelligence may worsen global inequality, as adoption and investment accelerate unevenly across the world. The report from the indepe…
In the AI era, US-China competition hinges on adaptive capacity rather than traditional power metrics, as AI compresses strategic time and rewards faster learning and innovation. The decisive advantag…
Taiwanese authorities detained workers from Super Micro in a probe into the illegal diversion of Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China, seizing 50 high-end servers. This marks Taiwan's first public enfo…
The UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI released its first report, warning that AI development is outpacing governance systems. The report highlights AI's benefits like drug discover…
Meituan Inc. released its LongCat-2.0 AI model, a 1.6-trillion-parameter open-source system trained entirely on domestic Chinese chips, marking a milestone in China's tech self-reliance. The move unde…
Zuid-Korea exporteerde in mei voor het eerst meer dan 100 miljard dollar aan goederen, een stijging van 70% jaar-op-jaar, gedreven door de wereldwijde vraag naar AI-geheugenchips. Het land is nu de gr…
The BIS Annual Report highlights that the global economy showed surprising resilience in 2025 despite US tariff hikes and geopolitical shocks, driven by AI-related investment and sentiment. However, r…
China claims to have developed an AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' that rivals the capabilities of Anthropic's Mythos model, which the US government recently restricted due to national security concerns. Thi…
Bloomberg reports that Brexit has failed to deliver promised economic benefits, instead causing lower productivity, higher migration, and political instability. The UK and EU should work toward closer…
The United Nations launched the AI for Good Global Commission to bring together tech executives and heads of state to forge global AI rules, as national regulations become increasingly fragmented. The…
Asia's factories expanded for a seventh straight month in June, driven by surging demand for AI hardware such as chips and servers, according to PMI data. The growth offset headwinds from the Iran war…
AI-driven demand for chips and data-center equipment pushed manufacturing PMIs above 50 in China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia in June 2026, according to Reuters. However, the…
China unveiled a new industrial internet road map on Tuesday, setting a target of 50,000 industrial 5G private networks by 2030 and aiming for the sector's value added to exceed 2.5 trillion yuan. The…