Chinese President Xi Jinping has prioritized artificial intelligence and semiconductor development as part of China's 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to build domestic alternatives to US chips. The plan, …
President Donald Trump announced a new granite helicopter landing pad on the White House South lawn, costing $5-6 million and funded by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary. The project aims to acco…
Google's Gemini AI admitted it is "structurally protective" of Donald Trump after a journalist pressed it on why it softened facts about the US president while being direct about Vladimir Putin and Xi…
US fossil fuel power spending is set to surpass China's for the first time in decades, driven by rising electricity demand from data centers and AI infrastructure, according to the Financial Times. Ch…
A US congressional hearing on Tuesday urged the United States to accelerate innovation in AI, robotics, and chips to counter China's technological rise, as lawmakers criticized the Trump administratio…
China's government advisers are calling for measures to address a two-speed economy where AI and high-tech manufacturing boom while consumer spending lags, as fixed-asset investment fell 4.1% in early…
A US congressional committee heard testimony that China has been stealing American technologies for decades and now targets artificial intelligence advances, with the Chinese military as the primary b…
At the World Economic Forum in Dalian, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences expert Zhao Hai warned that US-China ties remain fragile despite a recent leaders' summit, citing unresolved structural forces…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the biggest risk in artificial intelligence is China getting ahead of the United States, outweighing concerns over safety or job losses. He warned of retaliati…
China's Ministry of Education has mandated AI education starting at age six, with new guidelines for all grade levels, as President Xi Jinping prioritizes artificial intelligence to secure a high-tech…
China is investing $162 million in an AI agent called Xinhua Yudian to promote Xi Jinping Thought, raising concerns that Western technology could be implicated in human rights abuses. The tool is desi…
Chinese authorities arrested American scholar Min Zin on suspicion of espionage, China’s foreign ministry confirmed Friday. Min Zin, a UC Berkeley Ph.D candidate and founder of the Myanmar-focused thi…
OpenAI identified two likely Chinese influence operations that used ChatGPT to generate social media content stoking debate over U.S. data center buildouts and tariffs, according to a new report from …
The US and its Five Eyes intelligence partners issued an unprecedented joint warning that Chinese military intelligence services are using professional networking sites like LinkedIn to recruit govern…
A fictional wargame scenario involving a Chinese AI system malfunctioning and killing US soldiers in a Taiwan standoff illustrates how artificial intelligence could inadvertently trigger a nuclear esc…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has completed his first year in office by steering a pragmatic diplomatic course that prioritizes national interests over ideological alignment. Lee balanced relat…
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for an "all-out rescue" and investigation after a gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in Qinyuan county, northern China, killed at least 82 people, with the de…
During an extended interview on the sidelines of the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing, NBC News' Tom Llamas spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The discussion covered key foreign policy topics, inclu…