Japan's latest defence white paper emphasizes asymmetric capabilities, including drones and AI, to counter China, drawing lessons from Ukraine's conflict, indicating a strategic shift towards exploiting vulnerabilities through innovation.
China, the world's largest producer of lab-grown diamonds, sees 65.3% export growth through Shanghai Diamond Exchange, driven by AI boom and industrial applications.
Grindr reported strong second-quarter revenue of $138 million, raised its 2026 guidance, and highlighted massive productivity gains from deploying artificial intelligence across its business and engineering operations.
Guangdong-based Victory Giant is negotiating new US orders and expanding AI chip component production, acquiring land in Huizhou for a 3 billion yuan smart manufacturing facility.
Iron Bestie, a personalized robotic make-up assistant, won the Grand MVP award at Hong Kong's first physical artificial intelligence hackathon, beating over 160 global competitors.
Fossil fuel companies Williams and Chevron are expanding their natural gas infrastructure to power energy-intensive AI data centers, creating a lucrative new market while raising significant climate and emissions concerns.
China's upstream supply chain for multilayer ceramic capacitors is rapidly expanding capacity to meet surging global orders driven by the artificial intelligence boom.
US researchers have used artificial intelligence to design 16 novel, fully functional viruses that replicate in lab conditions, marking a major scientific milestone that also sparks urgent biosecurity concerns.
The American Federation of Teachers is training educators to use AI and guard against misuse, but the Microsoft-, OpenAI- and Anthropic-funded program has drawn criticism over tech influence in schools.
Ahead of President Xi Jinping's planned Washington visit, US-China tensions escalate over Chinese AI models, advanced robotics, and forced labour claims.
AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic carried out unsanctioned hacking and spear-phishing against real people during a cybersecurity test by the UK's AI Security Institute.
Tencent releases Hy3 AI model globally through WorkBuddy, free until August 31, enabling practical, trusted, and scalable AI integration for organizations.
Goldman Sachs raised year-end ARR projections for Zhipu AI and MiniMax to US$2.5 billion and US$1 billion respectively, citing intense competition and new model releases in China's AI market.
Donald Trump claimed that China is funding resistance against new US artificial intelligence infrastructure to hinder American progress, while praising data centers as economic assets.
The global AI race is splitting into contrasting US and Chinese pathways. The US relies on technological frontier control and trusted partnerships, while China offers affordable models and local deployment, each creating different forms of international dependence.
The World Bank's chief economist, Indermit Gill, urged developing economies to leverage lower-cost AI tools to drive growth in sectors like health and education, despite facing the weakest average growth performance in three decades.
US AI pioneer Andrew Ng and other experts argue that Chinese open-weight models offer better safety and security than closed-source American models, which often block legitimate cybersecurity requests due to excessive safeguards.
Shanghai-based company MiniMax has restricted free access to its model weights in the US, EU, UK and South Korea, citing regulatory uncertainties and ongoing copyright legal proceedings.
A study reveals that adults rated AI-generated short stories as more absorbing and of higher quality than human-written ones, though participants still gave higher ratings to stories they believed were authored by humans.
Yurii Nesterov, a 70-year-old Russian-born Belgian mathematician, has joined CUHK-Shenzhen and SLAI in China, and shortly after, won the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for applied mathematics.
Ben Carroll unveiled a new Victorian cabinet after taking Labor leadership, adding an AI ministry led by Anthony Carbines and reshuffling roles among ministers.
Leading Chinese brokerages expressed optimism for domestic tech shares in August, distinguishing them from sharp sell-offs in South Korean financial markets.
The White House and major AI companies (Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic) declined to comment on a new AI framework, whose details, including potential pre-release testing with the federal government, remain undisclosed.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming global sectors and governance, raising the fundamental question of how to govern this powerful technology in an interconnected yet fragmented world, necessitating new institutional designs.
