… Global Dispatch Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population. …
… Sign up here to get it straight to your inbox. The tech race between the U.S. and China seems to heat up daily. Headlines center on how America seeks to lead global AI with its capital and chips, while China tries to catch up through government subsidies and engineering ingenuity. …
… The U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips have made it difficult for Nvidia to maintain its dominance in China. In January, Trump allowed Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 chips to China, provided that the U.S. government gets a 25% cut. …
… Not one of them contemplated the possibility that a regional adversary would launch missiles at the physical buildings where those chips were meant to run. “The security frameworks behind the U.S.-UAE AI partnership were built for supply chain control and political alignment, not for protecting bui… …
… Security frameworks were designed to prevent advanced chips from reaching China rather than to protect the physical infrastructure from missiles. “U.S. government and industry leaders have prioritized expansion over kinetic risk mitigation, reflecting how AI development is outpacing national securi… …
… It said nothing about the kinetic defense of the physical infrastructure those chips would power. “U.S. government and industry leaders have prioritized expansion over kinetic risk mitigation,” Sam Zabin, a fellow at CSIS, told Rest of World . …
… These deals include major AI and cloud partnerships, such as a planned 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi and expanded access to advanced U.S. AI chips. …
… The more realistic and more dangerous scenario is China gaining indirect control over Taiwan through coercion — a “quarantine,” a blockade, a political crisis that ends with Taipei accepting Beijing’s terms. In that world, TSMC keeps operating, but Beijing decides who gets the chips. …
… Cerebras chips Cerebras, founded in 2016, makes AI chips and the supercomputer systems they power. Its AI chip is the largest in the world — a single piece of silicon the size of a dinner plate that accomplishes what Nvidia needs thousands of smaller processors wired together to do. …
… The U.S. military is using the most advanced AI it has ever used in warfare, with analysts predicting that AI is a “game-changer” and will increasingly be embedded into militaries everywhere. How reliable can AI systems that consumers also use to answer banal questions everyday be? …