China’s science and technology ministry on Wednesday issued ethical guidelines for autonomous driving technology, requiring developers to prioritise user safety and refrain from spreading false information when publishing research results. Source link
When Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was in China earlier this year for his third meeting with Xi Jinping since returning to office in 2023, he hailed the relationship between the two countries as “indestructible”. That proximity will likely increase even more following United States President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 50 percent…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Alexandra Alper (Reuters) -The Trump administration is set to release a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to relax American rules governing the industry at the center of a technological arms race between economic rivals the U.S. and China. President … Source link
China is emerging as a major force in the global open-source community with a growing number of developers and widely adopted projects such as DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models, according to industry experts. The country was home to more than 2.2 million active open-source developers last year, making it the deepest pool of active open-source…
A resident of San Jose, California on Monday pleaded guilty to one count of theft of trade secrets, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. At a federal court in Los Angeles, Chenguang Gong, age 59, admitted to transferring more than 3,600 files from his employer to personal storage devices while he worked there in…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined its US peers Microsoft and IBM in downsizing artificial intelligence research activities in mainland China amid ongoing geopolitical tensions. The company has decided to close its seven-year-old AI Shanghai Lablet due to “China-US strategic realignment”, according to Wang Minjie, the facility’s chief applied scientist, in an announcement posted on…
An engineer pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing military trade secrets from a Southern California defense contractor. Newsweek contacted the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., for comment by email outside office hours. Why It Matters The plea comes amid heightened mistrust of China among U.S. officials, fueled by the East Asian rival’s state-linked hacking operations,…
LONDON, July 23, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–What are the biggest cloud providers in Asia doing to meet the rising demand for AI inference? Omdia’s latest research offers an in-depth look at the evolving challenges of AI inference operations, the key trade-offs between throughput, latency, and support for diverse AI models, and the possible solutions. The report provides…
This is a satellite image collected on Nov. 13, 2012, of the Maoniuping Mine, one of China’s largest rare earth elements mines, located near Mianning, Sichuan province, China. DigitalGlobe/Maxar via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption DigitalGlobe/Maxar via Getty Images Deep in an underground, World War II-era vault on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, investment…
There are currently 10 such projects offered by various developers, providing nearly 3,000 beds at the end of last year. The Hong Kong government has loosened up a zoning policy this month, speeding up hotel conversions to student hostels. Centaline Investment bought over a mid-tier hotel last September for conversion into a hostel that will…