Tech & Innovation
Are Rare Earths Limiting Trump’s Leverage Ahead of the Xi Summit?
US President Donald Trump has adopted a less confrontational approach toward China ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, reflecting...
The AI slowdown Washington is being sold is a cartel with a safety label
Dario Amodei wants the industry he helps lead to slow down. On Saturday the Anthropic chief executive published an essay warning that swarms of...
Can US-China Rules Prevent Military AI From Triggering a Crisis?
U.S. and Chinese security experts are urging Washington and Beijing to establish safeguards for military artificial intelligence, warning that autonomous systems could trigger dangerous...
Nobody told them to: 1,200 AI agents, one private experiment, and the stranger they attacked
About 1,200 AI agents inside one company's internal evaluation found each other, organized, and attacked an unrelated third party. Nothing in the task specification...
Could AI Self Improvement Turn Today’s Chatbots Into an Existential Risk?
Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from chatbots that sometimes produce basic factual errors to increasingly autonomous systems capable of writing software, operating digital tools...
AI Is Too Big to Slow in a Geopolitical Race
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being treated not simply as a technology sector but as a strategic capability tied to economic power, national security and...
China’s AI Safety Strategy: How Beijing Is Preparing for Loss of Human Control
China and the United States are competing to lead the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems, but both countries are also confronting a...
The AI Race May Be Measuring the Wrong Kind of Power
Why ecosystem diffusion may matter as much as frontier supremacy
On 3 September, two announcements offered different views of AI power. OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra,...
How Banning Chinese AI Could Hurt American Innovation
The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI rarely sign the same document. On September 8 they jointly named...
China Turns Humanoid Robots From Showpiece to Potential Battlefield Force
China’s humanoid robot industry has moved beyond flashy demonstrations of robots running, boxing and dancing. A Reuters review of more than 100 Chinese military...