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Trump Launches a Super Intelligence Force to Keep America First in AI
A new federal task force, chaired by national intelligence director Jay Clayton, has 120 days to map the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence and report back to the White House.
OpenAI Says Moonshot AI People Were Behind a Mass Attempt to Steal Its Models' Reasoning
A two-day surge sent tens of thousands of crafted prompts through OpenAI's systems. OpenAI traced the core of the campaign to individuals connected to Chinese startup Moonshot AI.
China's AI Models Are Beating American Ones on Some Tests. Is Distillation Really the Whole Story?
Anthropic and Washington say Chinese labs are stealing their way to the top. A growing number of experts say that story is incomplete, and possibly dangerous to believe.
Xi Jinping Volunteers China to Lead AI Development Across the Developing World
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping proposed an open-source AI community, shared cloud infrastructure, and engineer-training programmes for member nations.
The regulation beat just tripled on us, and it wasn't the regulators
We published 30 stories on AI regulation in the week of 8 September, up from 8 the week before. What actually moved was the argument about who gets to write the rules.
China Is the Data Center Villain That Techies Love to Blame. The Evidence Disagrees.
Polling shows three-quarters of Americans now oppose local data centers. Politicians and tech figures point at China. But social media researchers say the anger is entirely homegrown.
America's AI Data Centers Run on Chinese Parts. Washington Wants to Change That.
From the boxes that regulate electricity to the cables that carry data, a surprising share of the hardware keeping US AI facilities running comes from China. Costs and delays loom if that changes fast.
China moves to regulate AI companions amid fears they are replacing human relationships
A 19-year-old cried when her AI boyfriend was switched off. China's government is worried millions more feel the same way.
Sprinting robots break Bolt's record, then break themselves: inside China's humanoid robot games
Beijing hosted the second World Humanoid Robot Games, where machines ran faster than any human ever has, did kung fu, played table tennis, and occasionally caught fire.
Nvidia Manager and Supermicro Staff Indicted in Taiwan Over AI Server Smuggling to China
Nine people face charges of document forgery and breach of trust after allegedly helping hide billions of dollars' worth of restricted AI hardware shipped to China.
China's AI Boom Has a Surprising Home: A Grassland City in Inner Mongolia
Nearly 100 data centres have opened or begun construction in Ulanqab since 2016. DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are all building there. A water crisis is already brewing.
Apple and Alibaba Built a Custom AI Model for China, Report Says
A cross-border partnership between two of the world's biggest tech companies could make Apple the first US firm to offer its own approved AI model in China.
Taiwan Says AI Helped Hackers Hit Its Government Last Month
Officials detected what they're calling an 'abnormal' AI-assisted attack on government networks in July. Here's what we know and what it signals for everyone else.
She Has Only Ever Said 'I Love You' to an AI: Inside China's AI Companion Boom
A new documentary follows three Chinese women who have built deep emotional bonds with AI 'boyfriends'. Their stories raise quiet, serious questions about loneliness, connection, and what we want from relationships.
Xi Jinping's minority crackdown has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with what AI companies ignore at their peril
China's new 'ethnic unity' law forces 125 million minority citizens to abandon their languages and cultures. For AI firms doing business there, the political climate just got harder to ignore.