What’s at stake for tech at the Trump-Xi meeting
…Managing the AI rivalry The two countries, while competing to advance AI technologies, may begin to cooperate on keeping AI safe. Beijing and Washington are considering setting up a recurring set of…
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India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance
…Nvidia’s most advanced processors are designed for training large AI models from scratch. Cerebras is built for speed in running AI applications, which matches India’s focus on deploying AI across…
AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share
…AI gains rest on publicly funded research, government-backed infrastructure, decades of scientific work, and the labor of people throughout the supply chain — from chip fabrication to data labeling to content moderation…
Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI
…institutions currently offer AI degrees, which include 193 bachelor’s degree programs. “This reveals a deeper and more fundamental difference between the two societies,” Ma told Rest of World . “[China’s] advantage…
The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley
…I met students who were looking to switch to AI from business, finance, and academia because they saw AI as an industry that’s both well-funded and Chinese-friendly. In AI…
Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models
…become — will access to major AI models become similar to access to oil?” Still, frugal AI models can be restrained by data scarcity, compute limitations, and funding gaps that prevent scaling. Their…
Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul
…By Indranil Ghosh Global Dispatch What the SpaceX IPO reveals about Gulf money in AI Saudi Arabia and the UAE are funding America's AI boom — and getting data centers in return…
Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech
…There are companies that benefit from the “China is the enemy” narrative — defense contractors, certain AI labs raising funding on a national-security pitch, social platforms whose biggest competitive threat is Chinese…
Big Tech’s Gulf megaprojects are trapped between two war choke points
…The crisis exposes a fundamental gap in how Washington approached its Gulf technology expansion. Security frameworks were designed to prevent advanced chips from reaching China rather than to protect the physical infrastructure…
China leads the humanoid robot race — but the U.S. still has a shot
…data sets to train or fine-tune these robots on. Fundamentally, we are able to experience really good technology on the AI side of things because of a lot of the public…