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Why China Isn't Getting Existential About A.I.

The New Yorker

China's fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation? On Sunday, China's Minister of State Security published an article in a state-run magazine that warned about artificial intelligence posing a threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.). This coincided with increasing concern among Americans that A.I. could pose existential risks to humanity, and rising calls for Washington to regulate it. Many of those pushing for regulation work at leading A.I. companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI, and they have received support from a broad ideological coalition on Capitol Hill. But there remains little appetite for regulation in the White House; President Trump has said that the United States must accelerate A.I. development to outpace China. I recently spoke by phone with Kyle Chan, a fellow at the Brookings Institution who focusses on Chinese technology policy.


U.S. May Have Committed War Crimes in Iran, U.N. Report Says

TIME - Tech

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South Korea Set to Approve Abortion Pills Next Year

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Now that's what you call mind-blowing! The human brain is TWO separate organs, scientists reveal

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers

WIRED

Once the music industry's biggest headache, Napster's next act is bringing AI to the classroom. The name that struck fear into the hearts of music executives in the early dotcom era may be coming to a classroom near you. In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it has signed a strategic partnership with Gems Education to build AI agents and digital personas for education. In doing so, the once-notorious music-sharing company is bringing its technology into the classroom and testing how AI can augment the work of both teachers and students. Today's Napster, of course, bears no resemblance to its original incarnation as a peer-to-peer music-file-sharing service.


America runs on data. If we don't build the infrastructure, China will

FOX News

Data centers, power generation and a skilled workforce of electricians, welders and technicians are essential if America wants to lead the artificial intelligence race.


We should use Reagan as a guide in handling our modern arms race with China

FOX News

Advanced AI chip sales to China could erase America's greatest strategic advantage. Trump should apply Reagan's Cold War lesson when meeting Xi Jinping this month.


Reimagining robotics for sustainability

Robohub

Imagine a robot designed to install solar panels with much greater speed and precision than a human. The robot is made from expensive materials and powered by a heavy battery that must be recharged every few hours. If the costs of building and operating the robot outweigh the benefits of the clean energy it helps produce, can it really be considered sustainable? In a 2025 article published in, Aude Billard, head of the Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab in EPFL's School of Engineering and Academic director of the Robotics Center, gives precisely this example to illustrate the tension between robotic performance and sustainability. Roboticists, she argues, can no longer ignore the fact that robots use energy-intensive power systems and electronic components made from finite resources.


'Just ask Grok': How ISIL is using Big Tech's AI to build bombs

Al Jazeera

'Just ask Grok': How ISIL is using Big Tech's AI to build bombs Share'Just ask Grok': How ISIL is using Big Tech's AI to build bombs on social media Boko Haram fighters are using the artificial intelligence chatbots of Big Tech companies to help build more powerful bombs, plan attacks and solve problems during combat, according to research by the University of Cambridge. A number of members described using Sam Altman-led OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, Elon Musk's Grok, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI and China's DeepSeek as a routine source of technical and military advice before, during and after attacks. Researchers at Tech Against Terrorism infiltrated a pro-ISIL technical forum where supporters instructed one another on how to use AI and circumvent its safety restrictions. The findings come amid growing concern over ISIL's adoption of emerging technologies. In February, United Nations officials warned the Security Council of increased use of advanced AI by ISIL and its affiliates. At the same time, researchers and several of the technology industry's most prominent figures have warned that increasingly powerful AI systems are advancing faster than safeguards, raising concerns that unchecked advances in AI are making it easier for armed groups to exploit the technology.


Waymo is expanding to Singapore

Engadget

Waymo has announced that it's coming to Singapore, thereby expanding its presence in Asia and in regions outside of the US as a whole. Over the coming months, its first Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will be arriving on the island nation as the company prepares for future operations. Throughout 2027, Waymo's specialists will manually drive its vehicles on Singapore's streets to map them, and the company will make changes to its system to account for the country's road geometry and weather patterns. Waymo expects to start offering rides to the Singaporean public in 2028 through its own app. The company started testing its driverless cars in Tokyo in 2025, making the sprawling Japanese metropolis its first international location.