The World Bank's World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence identifies the UAE as one of the few countries developing its own advanced foundation models, placing it in the '…
On July 28, over a thousand employees of the world's top AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, advocated for the US government to support an international effort to deliberately pace the front…
Uzbekistan has successfully launched its first remote sensing satellite, the Samarkand-2028 hyperspectral satellite, assembled jointly with China's STAR.VISION company, from a sea-based launch platfor…
President Donald Trump claimed that China is behind community protests against AI data centres in the United States, saying Beijing is spending money to promote resistance because the U.S. is ahead in…
India could join the front ranks of global artificial intelligence within a year if it makes a $10 billion investment in AI infrastructure, talent, and research, according to Pankaj Kumar, AI entrepre…
The United States is betting its economy and national security on winning the artificial intelligence race with China, with AI-related investment driving most of U.S. GDP growth and AI companies accou…
China has enacted new regulations banning AI chatbots from cultivating emotional dependence, prohibiting virtual romances with minors, and requiring alerts when users show signs of emotional distress,…
The United States is intensifying efforts to block Chinese AI hardware, with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issuing rules that ban imports of Chinese humanoid robots, solar inverters, and…
Japan's Cabinet adopted a 598-page defense paper on Tuesday stating that the country must adapt to new warfare methods involving artificial intelligence and drones, as demonstrated in Ukraine and the …
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is partnering with defense AI company EdgeRunner AI to develop an onboard AI system that enables military robots to operate autonomously without cloud computing or in…
The South China Morning Post's July 2026 global relations roundup highlights seven stories, including NATO's new defence projects against Russia and China, China's openness to reducing its EU trade su…
As the US and China compete over AI, middle powers can forge a third path, according to an analysis of recent developments including the US-led Pax Silica summit and China's World Artificial Intellige…
DeepSeek's release of a GPT-4-class model at a fraction of the training cost has forced US labs to rethink the assumption that frontier AI must cost billions, according to an analysis. The article arg…
Goldman Sachs analysts Daan Struyven and Lia Thomas reported on Monday that China has become the de facto 'volatility arbiter' for global commodity markets, dampening price volatility in hydrocarbons …
SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX) is set to report its first-ever earnings on Tuesday, August 4, after the closing bell, with shares trading at $109.80 on Monday, down over 50% from their intraday high and below …
The United States imposed fresh tariffs on 60 economies, including China, Japan, South Korea, India and European Union member states, on June 24, hours before a temporary 10 per cent blanket levy was …
At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, leaders from the US, EU, and China presented competing visions for AI governance, yet all agree that AI is too powerful to be treated as ordinary technology. Th…
A report that China has begun mass-producing specialty chips for AI triggered a selloff that erased $1 trillion in market value from other chip manufacturers, according to the Guardian. The same week,…
China's 'Total War on Taipei' cognitive-effects push, Russia's Baltic C2 model, al-Qaeda and ISIS diverging on AI adoption, and Sahel counter-drone/AI teaming all point to the contest moving, accordin…
The U.S. State Department's Bureau of African Affairs has closed 37 commercial transactions worth $25.67 billion since the start of President Donald Trump's second term, including a $6.2 billion deal …