In July, some of the brightest minds in American technology descended on Washington to celebrate a major milestone: the launch of President Donald Trump's bold initiative to ensure the United States remains the world's unrivaled leader in artificial intelligence (AI). Let me be blunt: the AI arms race is no longer theoretical. And we cannot afford to come in second place. In business, if you don't constantly adapt and innovate, you lose. If we fail to lead in AI, we risk surrendering our economic and national security edge to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) -- a regime that seeks to challenge American technological supremacy and reshape the global order in its authoritarian image.

Leaders in the tech industry are urging the Biden administration not to add a new regulation that will limit artificial intelligence exports, citing concerns it is overbroad and could diminish the United States' global dominance in AI. The new rule, which industry leaders say could come as early as the end of this week, effectively seeks to shore up the U.S. economy and national security efforts by adding new restrictions on how many U.S.-made artifical intelligence products can be deployed across the globe. "A rule of this nature would cede the global market to U.S. competitors who will be eager to fill the untapped demand created by placing arbitrary constraints on U.S. companies' ability to sell basic computing systems overseas," stated a Monday letter from Jason Oxman, the president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), sent to Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo. "Should the U.S. lose its advantage in the global AI ecosystem, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to regain in the future." FBI'S NEW WARNING ABOUT AI-DRIVEN SCAMS THAT ARE AFTER YOUR CASH The process to place new export controls on artificial intelligence goes back to October 2022, when the Biden administration's Commerce Department first released an updated export framework aimed at slowing the progress of Chinese military programs. Details of the new incoming export controls surfaced after the Biden administration called on American tech company NVIDIA to stop selling certain computer chips to China the following month.

A former Google engineer was arrested in California on Wednesday for stealing more than 500 files containing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company and using the information to benefit rival tech companies in China. In an indictment that was unsealed in a federal California court, prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national who started working at Google in 2019, of uploading trade secrets from his Google-issued laptop to personal cloud storage accounts. The documents that Ding stole involved "building blocks" of Google's AI infrastructure, according to the indictment. Ding was arrested in Newark, California, and charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets. If convicted, he can be sentenced up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 250,000 for each count.

House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., tells Arthel Neville on'Fox News Live' that'there is nothing' the Chinese Communist Party will not do to'get a leg up' on the world. China has ramped up its efforts to clamp down on foreign data procurement in a move partially motivated by U.S. think tank efforts to monitor hard to find information on Beijing and its "military-civil fusion" strategy, a report by the Wall Street Journal found Monday. As tension and competition between the U.S. and China continues to mount, Beijing has recently taken steps to restrict overseas access to its databases and tighten its control over Western narratives relating to China. An espionage act revised late last month has drawn concern from the international business community, which has argued that the new guidelines could make continuing business with the world's second-largest economy more risky. Western consulting, legal, cyber and auditing firms may find it harder to conduct business with Beijing following President Xi Jinping's move to expand China's power over private entities and control access to data and financial records.

Deepmind, a subsidiary of Alphabet specialising in artificial intelligence, recently presented its "Gato" model. This so-called "general-purpose" AI model can reportedly perform more than 600 different tasks. And, in many of these tasks, the AI might even perform better than a human being. Could Deepmind have built the first general-purpose artificial intelligence model, i.e., a model capable of learning several tasks at once, whereas most AI models are trained for a specific purpose? Since the American company unveiled its new work, the question has been spurring reaction from computer experts around the world.

On December 10, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions, including a bar on American investments, on SenseTime, a Chinese artificial intelligence company accused of developing facial-recognition software used to target China's predominantly Muslim Uyghur community. The move, part of a raft of sanctions introduced on Human Rights Day, prompted SenseTime to postpone a planned IPO in Hong Kong. Officially, Treasury added SenseTime to its Chinese Military-Industrial Complex (CMIC) list, created under a different name in November 2020 by then president Trump. In June, President Biden removed some companies from the list, added others, and expanded its scope to include Chinese companies selling surveillance technology. On December 16, eight companies were added to the blacklist, including dronemaker DJI and facial-recognition firm Megvii. The moves show how, despite toned-down rhetoric, Biden has largely maintained Trump's policies toward China.

This piece was updated Aug. 11 to add information from Google. Recently, the Biden administration and a host of allies called out China for its massive Microsoft Exchange hack (among others), and threatened strengthened cyber defense measures and continued exposure of the PRC's malicious cyber activity. But despite a lot of hard talk about securing America's cyber defenses, action is wanting, and the government has failed to address a glaring boon to the PRC's cyber capabilities: our own companies' AI research centers in China. Housing the AI research labs of America's cutting-edge tech companies in authoritarian China was never a good idea. But given that the Chinese government uses foreign tech companies to help find and exploit security vulnerabilities, and that it is claiming ever more control over tech companies' operations and data, it looks more objectionable than ever. AI is an increasingly crucial element of cyber security and hacking, and Xi Jinping's China has demonstrated time and time again that China's high-tech sector serves the CCP, which sees AI technology in particular as a core tool of its future autocratic rule.

In April 2020, Amazon, the world's wealthiest technology company, received a shipment of 1,500 heat-mapping camera systems from the Chinese surveillance company Dahua. Many of these systems will be installed in Amazon warehouses to monitor the heat signatures of employees and alert managers if workers exhibit Covid-19-like symptoms. Other cameras included in the shipment will be distributed to IBM and Chrysler, among other buyers. While Amazon's move to protect workers from Covid-19 is welcome, it acquired this technology from a company from a company researchers have shown is involved in human rights abuses. As Sanjana Varghese noted recently, the "humanitarian experimentation" work in pandemic surveillance of companies like Dahua doubles as technologies of population management.

Autonomous Things (AuT) technology has not only found use cases in several industries including retail, security, transportation, military, and more – it's already transforming the very way we live. Find everything you should know about AuT in this guide. Autonomous Things (AuT), also known as the Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), are devices that use machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to complete specific tasks. AuTs are equipped with sensors, AI and analytical capabilities to improve the things they can do. To that effect, each machine can make its own decision and complete tasks autonomously. Some examples of AuT are self-driving cars, drones, autonomous smart home devices, and every other technology that does not need human control to be operational.

Experts say Iran may retaliate for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, its top military leader, with cyber attacks on American companies. Experts say Iran may retaliate for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, its top military leader, with cyber attacks on American companies. Cybersecurity researchers and U.S. government officials said hackers linked to Iran are probing American companies for vulnerabilities. The warnings suggest that the next phase of hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, following the Jan. 3 killing of a top Iranian general in an American drone strike, is likely to play out in cyberspace. The Iranian regime is accused of being behind some high-profile online operations against American targets in recent years. Between 2011 and 2013, hackers targeted big American banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Capital One.