Apr 28, 2026
China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus. A brief Monday statement from the Middle Kingdom’s foreign investment regulator says Beijing “made a decision to prohibit foreign investment in the Manus project in accordance with laws and regulations, and has...
Dec 4, 2025
The US must return astronauts to the Moon before China mounts its first crewed landing there, NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman predicted on Wednesday. He also vowed that the country will not endure another gap in its human-spaceflight capabilities as the...
Dec 3, 2025
China has embraced AI to help it censor and surveil its citizens and is exporting its techniques to the world, according to a new report by think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). Titled “The party’s AI: How China’s new AI systems are reshaping...
Sep 1, 2025
Asia In Brief China’s State Council last week announced a new IT policy called “AI +”, the successor to 2015’s “Internet +”. The Council said Internet+ focused on connectivity to improve production processes. AI+ aims to achieve “a leap from ‘information connection...
Jul 20, 2025
Comment OpenAI was supposed to make good on its name and release its first open-weights model since GPT-2 this week. Unfortunately, what could have been the US’s first half-decent open model of the year has been held up by a safety review, according to CEO Sam...
Apr 29, 2025
RSAC Russia used to be considered America’s biggest adversary online, but over the past couple of years China has taken the role, and is proving highly effective at it. This shift was signified by the Volt Typhoon attacks against the US last year, retired Rear...
