DAILYCALLER (Alexander Gray) - Cheap Chinese ‘Surveillance Machines’ Cannot Flood US Car Market At All Costs
‘cheap, Chinese surveillance machines on our streets’
YOUTUBE (Fox Business) - Inside the new ‘brain’ BUILT for America’s warfighters
Edgerunner AI co-founder and CEO Tyler Saltsman joins 'Mornings with Maria' to discuss building military-specific artificial intelligence for warfighters and navigating the U.S.-China technology race.
NYTIMES (Li Yuan) - As China Hunts for Scientific Talent, the US Makes It Easier
Young researchers have long come to the U.S. for academic training, but a combination of Chinese money and U.S. restrictions is shifting the balance.
NYTIMES (David Pierson and Berry Wang) - China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I.
China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology.
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Musk and Zuckerberg claw back into AI race with new model momentum
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have muscled their way back into AI's elite ranks, defying early obituaries to close the gap on a new generation of Silicon Valley startups. Why it matters: Recent gains by tech giants SpaceX and Meta — long stuck in AI's second tier — are putting new pressure on a hierarchy dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic. State of play: Both companies released models this week featuring a combination of performance and price that would have been hard to imagine from either lab a year ago. - SpaceX's Grok 4.6 scored essentially even with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the closely watched Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index , and just behind Anthropic's Fable 5 Max. - Promising "something special," Musk said Grok…
AI:Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have aggressively re-entered the elite AI arms race by leveraging the massive scale of their respective empires to challenge the dominance of OpenAI and Anthropic. Musk has integrated xAI into SpaceX in a $60 billion move, utilizing proprietary data and immense computing power to push Grok 4.6 to performance levels rivaling GPT-5.6, with even more advanced iterations expected imminently. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg is pivoting Meta toward "superintelligence for everyone" by focusing on high-performance, low-cost models like Muse Glimmer that can run locally, a strategy backed by a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. As the battle shifts from raw intelligence to cost-effectiveness and resource deployment, these…Open
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Zuckerberg: AI's biggest risk is one entity with too much control
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a full-throated defense of AI on Monday morning: a 6,500-word manifesto arguing that the most common concerns are overblown and fail to account for all the positives it can achieve. - In his vision of AI , the biggest risk instead is that one government or entity has too much power over the technology. Why it matters: Zuckerberg's flag in the ground, with a utopian vision of a highly personal AI that fuels individual achievement, comes as policymakers debate how much control they should have over increasingly powerful models. What they're saying: "One of the ways to achieve both individual empowerment and checks and balances is to make sure you put the technology in everybody's hands," Zuckerberg told…
AMERICANTHINKER - Quantum Computing Is The Next Technological Horizon
ChatGPT for American Thinker By Janet Levy Nations are already racing for supremacy in quantum computing—where will the U.S. place?
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Tommy Waller) - China protects its AI from an invisible threat the US ignores
Originally posted by National Interest
Protecting AI leadership requires more than building data centers. It also depends on securing the power grid against space weather threats. To win the artificial intelligence (AI ) race—America is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers—facilities that demand pristine, “clean” electrical power for sensitive equipment. Yet an invisible threat from the sun can turn those massive investments into costly liabilities for the United States and hand China the upper hand in this global competition. The threat is insidious and potentially inevitable . Solar storms hurl charged particles at Earth, disturbing our planet’s magnetic field and inducing powerful currents in the Earth’s crust. These “ground-induced…Open
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he does not support open-weight AI ban
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Monday that he has "never advocated" for a ban on open-weight AI models , rejecting accusations that his lab is seeking to shield its closed-model business from competition. Why it matters: Anthropic has become the most prominent holdout from a new industry push to defend open-weight AI, after Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI and dozens of other companies signed a letter urging Washington not to restrict the technology. - The push was triggered by the shock debut of Kimi K3 , a Chinese open-weight model that rattled Silicon Valley by approaching U.S. frontier performance at a fraction of the cost. - The Trump administration has weighed taking action against open-source models, including sanctions…
NYTIMES (Steve Lohr) - Xi Jinping of China Pitches ‘Openness’ in Push to Shape the Path of A.I.
Xi Jinping said the development of artificial intelligence systems should be a “symphony of global collaboration.”