Image caption, Sir Ken McCallum gave his annual address at MI5's headquarters in central London MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said, as he labelled Russia aggressor number one. Sir Ken McCallum warned MI5 was now facing a situation in which our terrorism and state threats operational missions are pretty much of equal scale because threats from foreign adversaries have quadrupled. He used an annual speech at the domestic intelligence service's headquarters in London to also warn of rising threats from Iran and extreme right-wing terrorism. Sir Ken also said MI5 had caught terrorists seeking to exploit AI, including by integrating the technology with drones - and warned the UK must stay ahead of the risk of new bioweapons being developed by violent groups. The MI5 head said Russia was waging hybrid warfare while carefully avoiding triggering a joint response from Nato, a line which he said the Kremlin would be foolish to cross.

Technology Cold War espionage added $4.6 billion to East Germany's economy Stolen trade secrets boosted the country's output--to a point. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A Wartburg 353 and Trabant cars parked beside the Berlin Wall while a queue of East German people wait to cross to the West after the Wall fell and travel restrictions were lifted, Berlin, December 1989. No matter what side you were on, espionage was a cornerstone of Cold War political life . But it was also big business.

'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier Share'Silent Cold War': Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US-China frontier on social media China has warned against "fear-mongering" after the CEO of a top artificial intelligence (AI) company in the United States sounded the alarm against AI advancement and called for restrictions on the sale of AI chips to China. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the development of the most powerful AI systems to be slowed down, warning that they could soon pose potentially catastrophic risks to humanity itself. The dispute comes as Washington and Beijing compete over increasingly capable AI models, with US President Donald Trump declaring, "Whoever wins AI wins." So, what has got AI giants worried, why is China being seen as a threat? Why are AI tech giants raising the alarm?

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei compared the AI race with China to the Cold War, suggesting arms limitation talks to slow AI development and address AI safety concerns.

The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks transformed global politics as Western democracies abandoned many liberal principles and older conflicts over empire, decolonization, immigration and culture resurfaced in the far-right movements.

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OpenAI unveiled its first custom inference chip, built with Broadcom and called 'Jalapeño,' signaling the U.S.-China AI competition has shifted to controlling critical infrastructure.

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Tom Emmer says Trump is'fixing' inflation from Biden's'broken economy' U.S. AI technology race is new'cold war' between US and China that could have devastating consequences: report

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