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…
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…