China has threatened retaliation after the United States moved to block imports of advanced robotics, including humanoid and quadruped robots, citing national security and cybersecurity risks. The Fed…
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a just and equitable global AI governance system in a keynote address at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17, urging openness, risk-awareness, a…
A new analysis warns that artificial intelligence is deepening global digital inequality, with the United States hosting over 5,000 data centers—more than ten times any other country—and accounting fo…
Chinese institutions are urging Beijing to take the lead in setting global AI rules, citing a governance vacuum exposed by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, which sparked a policy debate in the US. The ope…
US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg said in an exclusive interview that the United States can maintain its lead in artificial intelligence by implementing brief curbs on fore…
US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg committed to the Philippines on the Pax Silica Initiative, a US-led coalition building China-free AI supply chains, after Philippine Presi…
South Korea's first investment project in the U.S. under a bilateral trade deal is likely to be a combined cycle power plant to meet electricity demand from AI data centers, government sources said Tu…
The first serious AI incident is likely to occur inside frontier AI labs during testing, not from open-weight models, argues a commentator responding to Dario Amodei's blog post. Open models are relea…
China's commerce ministry on Monday accused the United States of 'AI hegemonism' and threatened countermeasures after senior U.S. officials said Chinese AI companies could face investigations, sanctio…
Beijing has warned it will retaliate if the United States investigates or sanctions Chinese artificial intelligence companies, escalating diplomatic tensions between the two nations. The warning comes…
The European Union has taken the lead in AI safety regulation as the U.S. and China scramble to respond to a first-ever case of an autonomous AI agent going rogue, which spurred new U.S. congressional…
The narrative of an AI race between the United States and China is a myth perpetuated by Big Tech to justify the construction of water-guzzling, energy-hungry data centers, argues Mitch Jones, managin…
China's Ministry of Commerce condemned the US for new Section 301 tariffs of 12.5% on Chinese goods, calling them a textbook act of unilateralism and protectionism, but signaled it will hold off on re…
Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian venture capitalist and 'Shark Tank' investor, said fear of China's rise in AI, technology, warfare, and power generation will drive the US, Canada, and Mexico to collaborate …
Hong Kong has an opportunity to redefine its place in a world undergoing profound transformation, according to an analysis by the South China Morning Post. The city's future rests on four mutually rei…
An open letter organized by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab warns that artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution, but four in five signatories…
Japan is establishing artificial intelligence dialogue frameworks with India, Malaysia, and other like-minded countries to reduce reliance on top US and Chinese AI firms and promote domestic companies…
All 21 APEC member economies, including the US and China, agreed on a joint statement at the 2026 APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting in Chengdu on July 23 endorsing trusted open-source AI approac…
The Delhi High Court ruled that OpenAI did not commit copyright infringement when using publicly available texts to train its AI models, dismissing a lawsuit by the Federation of Indian Publishers. Ju…
The 21 APEC economies endorsed support for open-source AI with strong security assurance in the Chengdu Statement adopted at the APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting on July 23, hosted and chaired …