US should ‘steal’ China’s best AI talent to keep pace, Senate hears
Talk of luring engineers follows mainland start-up DeepSeek's emergence and ensuing shock waves felt by major American tech ...
FirstFT: China’s military builds massive new wartime command centre
Also in today’s newsletter, OpenAI’s massive new funding round, and India’s Narendra Modi faces tough budget challenge ...
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Marcos offers China a missile ‘deal’
The Philippines will “return” the Typhon missile launchers to the United States if China will drop its claim on the West ...
China Wants to Rule the Seas—It Claims to Have the Most Advanced Technology to Spy on American Subs.
China is on a mission to become the world’s dominant superpower by 2049. That goal is driving a desire to build a world-class ...
Italy blocks access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users’ data
Italy’s data protection authority has blocked use of Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s AI application to protect Italians’ data ...
Patel thrives, Gabbard struggles
Trump’s pick to be director of the FBI, loyalist KASH PATEL, was already expected to have a much easier path to confirmation than director of national intelligence nominee TULSI GABBARD. Gabbard has ...
DeepSeek’s AI restricted by ‘hundreds’ of companies within days
According to DeepSeek’s own privacy policy, the company collects users’ keystrokes, text and audio input, uploaded files, feedback, chat history and other content for the purpose of training its AI ...
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China Becomes Russia’s Lifeline for Critical War Minerals
With Western sanctions cutting off supplies, China has become Russia’s sole source of critical minerals used in weapons ...
Cheap flights and no visas required: Why we’re flocking back to China
Although Qantas pulled its only direct flight to China between Sydney and Shanghai in mid-2024, last year saw a return to pre ...
China’s DeepSeek Shock Raises A Big Economic Question
The economic hardware/software debate about China just got more complicated. Before DeepSeek flipped the script on the ...
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Philippine agriculture in crisis (3)
THE second installment of this series briefly discussed China's dramatic agricultural transformation. Professor Jikun Huang of the China Center for Agricultural Policy at Peking University revealed ...