Singapore's key exports rose 24.2% in July, extending June's 20.8% growth, driven by robust AI-related demand, but missed the 26.8% forecast by private-sector economists in a Bloomberg poll. Electroni…
Austan Goolsbee, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, warned that persistent weak productivity readings could undermine the AI-driven growth narrative, potentially leading to stag…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Mexico has become a cornerstone of the AI boom, providing 40% of US imports of computer servers used in AI data centres this year, with sales reaching $46.9bn, making it the second-largest provider be…
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, warns that the current AI investment frenzy is the biggest bubble in American history and that the US and UK are already in the decline phase of an 80-yea…
The concentration of AI compute power in the US is widening the global digital divide, according to Stanford AI Index data showing the US hosts over 5,000 data centers—ten times more than any other na…
The Trump administration has banned the import of new Chinese humanoid robots, escalating the technology race between the US and China in robotics and artificial intelligence, according to BBC Technol…
The US and China are preparing for high-level AI talks in September, stemming from agreements reached during the Trump-Xi summit in May, with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expected to lead the A…
Five competing checkout and settlement standards for agentic payments are now vying to become how software spends money, most of them less than 14 months old, with no binding statute in the US, UK, EU…
AI is spreading beyond the tech industry into non-tech roles across the broader economy, according to new data from Indeed. In the US, the number of AI-touched job titles has more than tripled since 2…
A commentator claims China's open-source AI strategy, exemplified by Kimi K3, is an explicit CCP plan to crash the US stock market and economy by subsidizing cheap models that pressure US AI labs, pot…
China, Russia, Brazil and 26 other countries established the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) in Shanghai on July 16 to set global AI standards and regulation, excluding …
China, Russia, Brazil, and 26 other countries established the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) in Shanghai on July 16, creating a global AI standards and regulation body …
A Chinese startup, Moonshot AI, has released the world's largest open AI model, narrowing the gap with US rivals and sending AI and semiconductor stocks sliding. The model competes with Anthropic and …
National security concerns, not market forces, will determine the outcome of the US-China AI race, according to a commentary in The Business Times. The article notes that while Chinese AI models are c…