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…
Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez warned on Monday that Manila risks losing the Pax Silica hi-tech hub to regional rivals Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia if it 'drops the ball', e…
Special Operations Forces (SOF) must shed habits from the War on Terror to remain relevant in future conflicts, according to an analysis presented at the Special Air Warfare Symposium. The article arg…
U.S. federal government debt is set to reach $40 trillion within weeks, with annual additions of $2 trillion, and some AI proponents argue that AI-driven growth could generate tax revenues to help pay…
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT Ads test to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea on August 11, following the initial U.S. launch on February 9. The ads appear below responses for free…
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…
Stripe data shows AI companies are expanding globally, with the 100 largest reaching 120 markets on average by their third year and drawing 48% of revenue from outside their home markets. Mexico led g…
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 '…
LLM Pulse's analysis of 137,038 ChatGPT answers collected between 25 July and 4 August 2026 found that 71.9% of 36,153 US answers carried at least one ad, with 34,514 ads total. The study, which track…
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…
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…
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 …
The European Union's AI Act, which entered into force on August 1, 2024, began enforcing its 'unacceptable risk' prohibitions on February 2, 2025, banning eight categories of AI systems including soci…
Taiwan's economy grew 12.92 percent in the second quarter of 2026, following a 13.69 percent rise in the first quarter, driven by surging US demand for AI chips, with US imports from Taiwan reaching $…
The United States has expanded its AI trade war to include Chinese humanoid robots and power systems for data centers, according to a Forbes report by Ron Schmelzer. The move targets Chinese robotics …
A coalition of 19 government agencies from nine countries, including the United States, South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom, warned on Friday that North Korean IT workers are using artificial i…
Italy signed the Pax Silica Declaration in Brindisi, formally joining the U.S.-led technology partnership on semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and critical minerals. The move deepens Italy's in…
US Senator Ted Cruz warned a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on Thursday that delays in building AI infrastructure could cede the lead in the AI race to China, citing the…