Clement Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, stated that China is currently winning the open-source AI race, citing the staggering volume of high-quality open-weight models from Chinese labs …
Japan's June trade deficit and the yen's slide reveal structural economic decay as its auto sector loses ground in the electric vehicle transition, with Chinese competitors leading in battery costs, s…
China should ensure its new international artificial intelligence body, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAICO), is not perceived as 'naturally opposed' to the US-led Pax Silica partnersh…
China-linked hackers launched an 'autonomous' AI-powered cyber attack against Taiwan, according to a report that highlights the growing use of artificial intelligence in offensive cyber operations. Th…
Generative AI has driven the marginal cost of producing software toward zero, collapsing the pure software moat, while Chinese industrial agglomeration already destroyed the pure hardware moat, accord…
New research from China proposes a non-invasive method to protect copyrighted animation characters by injecting learned generic substitutes at inference time, preserving scene structure while removing…
The Trump administration is developing an AI-powered 'detective border' to crack down on trading partners suspected of enabling China to evade tariffs on US imports, according to a report released Thu…
A Hacker News user argues that US sanctions on China, which prohibit NVIDIA chips from being sold there, are counterproductive, as they compel China to develop independent, affordable alternatives and…
Taiwan was hit by an unprecedented 'autonomous' AI hack linked to China, according to the Financial Times. The attack, which used AI to automate intrusion, targeted Taiwanese infrastructure and marked…
Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents Hermes and OpenClaw to create a 'near-autonomous attack' that compromised 85 government accounts, stole 2,564+ personnel records, and scanned 7+ energy secto…
China-linked hackers launched an unprecedented 'autonomous' AI cyber attack on Taiwan, using AI agents to conduct simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins, according to the Financial Times. The attac…
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar said the United States is making progress every day in using artificial intelligence to boost American workers, citing a submarine part…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned that the US risks losing the AI race to China unless it accelerates construction of energy capacity and data centres, noting that China is bringing online 1GW+ of nucle…
China is pitching its AI models to Europe as part of a broader effort to challenge the US-China duopoly in artificial intelligence, but data shows Europe lags far behind. The 2026 Global AI Innovation…
Nvidia is collaborating with major Wall Street firms to orchestrate a financing initiative that could channel as much as $500 billion into AI infrastructure, according to a report from Inside AI. The …
A 2.5-week visit to China revealed that Chinese cities are cleaner, safer, and greener than US cities, and that China and the US are equally capable in translational biotech and neurotech R&D, with Ch…
Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) raised its 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.5-5.5% from 2-4%, citing an accelerating global AI investment boom. The economy expanded 6.1% year-on-yea…
BlackRock's updated Geopolitical Risk Dashboard now flags the U.S.-China competition over artificial intelligence as a top-tier systemic risk for investors, placing it alongside active military confli…
Independent senior AI logic auditor Oleh Polishchuk argues that AI is a resource-devouring physical infrastructure rather than an ethereal solution, citing that a single 100 MW data center consumes ab…
Europe's battery-electric vehicle (BEV) market share reached 20.7% of new car registrations in the first half of 2026, up from 15.6% a year earlier, with sales topping 1.24 million units, a 33.7% incr…