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Beyond killer robots: China’s real AI threat to America is already here, experts warn
Experts are warning that China is actively undermining America’s technological dominance through AI without military conflict, citing strategies that include extracting logic from American AI models, flooding global markets with free open-source alternatives, and potentially weaponising these systems for cognitive warfare. This economic approach represents a significant competitive threat, particularly as major American corporations may…
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Inner Mongolia’s rural data centres fuel China’s artificial intelligence push
China is rapidly building vast data centres in rural Inner Mongolia to supply the computing power needed for its artificial-intelligence ambitions. The expansion matters because AI has become central to the country’s economic and national-security competition with the United States, while both governments consider how the technology should be regulated. Ulanqab, once known mainly as…
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North Korean defector issues stark warning about America ahead of Christian university’s anti-communism event
Cornerstone University, a Christian institution in Michigan, is hosting an anti-communism event featuring survivors and scholars of communist and socialist regimes. The university president stated the event responds to perceived growing sympathy for communist and socialist ideas amongst Americans, particularly young people, aiming to educate the public about the “moral bankruptcy” of these ideologies. The…
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This David Bowie Hit From the 80s Featured Three Legendary Contributors
David Bowie’s 1983 hit “China Girl” was a major collaborative achievement, bringing together Bowie, Iggy Pop, Nile Rodgers and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Bowie adapted the song, originally written with Pop for The Idiot, for his album Let’s Dance, while Rodgers reshaped its sound for the pop market and Vaughan added a memorable blues-rock guitar solo.…
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Sony Scoops Up TIFF Michelle Yeoh Thunder Road Action Thriller ‘The Surgeon’
Sony Pictures has secured North American and international distribution rights to *The Surgeon*, an action thriller starring Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh, following a competitive bidding process at the Toronto International Film Festival. The acquisition signals renewed interest in festival acquisitions and demonstrates confidence in the project’s commercial potential, particularly given Yeoh’s star power and the…
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Roshan Sethi’s ‘The Surgeon’ Acquired by Sony Pictures for North America and Beyond
Sony Pictures has acquired North American rights to Roshan Sethi’s thriller The Surgeon, alongside rights in Latin America, Italy, China and Hong Kong. The deal follows a competitive bidding process and expands the film’s international distribution, highlighting strong industry interest in Sethi’s latest project. Michelle Yeoh stars as an expert surgeon abducted and forced to…
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Federal indictment handed down in Minnesota related to issue some Dems claim never happens: ‘Hotbed for fraud’
An Indian national, Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari, has been federally indicted in Minnesota on two counts alleging that he falsely claimed to be a US citizen in order to register and vote in the 2024 general election. The case has renewed partisan debate about the extent of voter fraud, with conservative critics citing it as evidence…
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Afghan cyclist Hashimi takes Asian Games silver after Taliban-era disguise
Afghan cyclist Fariba Hashimi won a silver medal in the women’s road race at the Asian Games in Japan, after previously disguising herself as a man to train under the Taliban. Her achievement highlights both her personal resilience and the severe restrictions facing women in Afghanistan, where she says female athletes risked violence and persecution.…
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Z.ai apologises after ZCode uploaded entire user workspaces to cloud storage
Z.ai has apologised after developers discovered that its ZCode programming tool packaged entire user workspaces, including project histories, encrypted them and uploaded them to Alibaba Cloud. The incident raised serious privacy and security concerns because users could neither access nor delete the files, while the practice was allegedly not disclosed or optional. ZCode said the…
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European drug firms urge leaders to reverse widening innovation gap
Nine leading European pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, GSK and Novo Nordisk, have written to national leaders across Europe warning that the continent is losing its competitive advantage in drug development to the United States and China. The letter calls on governments to treat medicines as strategic infrastructure and act urgently to reverse declining investment and…